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^bis  Indenture,  made  the  day  of  , 

in  the  year  One  thousand  nine  hundred  and  seventeen,  pur- 
suant to  the  provisions  of  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  New  York  entitled  “An  Act  to  provide  for  the 
regulation  and  improvement  of  the  railroad,  terminals  and 
approaches  thereto,  and  of  the  motive  power  to  be  used 
thereon,  of  The  New  York  Central  and  Hudson  River 
Railroad  Company  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and,  for  such 
purpose,  for  discontinuing  the  use  at  grade  by  said  com- 
pany of  certain  streets,  avenues,  public  parks  or  places  in 
said  city,  and,  also  for  such  purpose,  to  authorize  the  city 
of  New  York  to  grant  real  property  and  rights  to  said 
railroad  company  and  to  acquire  real  property  and  rights 
from  said  railroad  company,”  being  Chapter  777  of  the 
Laws  of  1911,  in  effect  July  25th,  1911,  by  and  between 
THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK,  hereinafter  called  the  “City,” 
acting  by  its  Board  of  Estimate  and  Apportionment,  here- 
inafter called  the  “Board,”  party  of  the  first  part,  and 
THE  NEW  YORK  CENTRAL  RAILROAD  COMPANY  (suc- 
cessor of  The  New  York  Central  and  Hudson  River  Rail- 
road Company),  a corporation  organized  and  existing 
under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  and  certain  other 
states,  and  having  its  principal  office  at  No.  575  Broad- 
way, in  the  City  of  Albany,  Albany  County,  New  York, 
hereinafter  called  the  “ Railroad  Company,”  party  of  the 
second  part;  Witnesseth: 

That  whereas,  on  the  day  of  , 1917, 

the  Board  of  Estimate  and  Apportionment  of  The  City  of 
New  York  adopted  the  following  resolutions: 

“Whereas,  the  plans  and  profiles  provided  for  by 


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Chapter  777  of  the  Laws  of  1911,  as  amended  and 
modified  in  accordance  with  amendments  and  modifi- 
cations agreed  to  by  the  Railroad  Company,  have 
been  approved  by  this  Board  this  day  of 
, 1917 ; and 

Whereas,  at  or  before  the  filing  of  such  plans  and 
profiles  an  agreement  in  writing  between  this  Board 
and  the  Railroad  Company  has  been  entered  into, 
made,  executed  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Comptrol- 
ler of  the  City  as  provided  for  in  said  Act;  and 

Whereas,  said  agreement  makes  provision  for  the 
conveyance  by  the  City  to  the  Railroad  Company  of 
the  lands,  lands  under  water,  rights,  interests  or 
easements  in  lands,  lands  under  water,  rights  or 
easements  in  streets,  avenues,  ways,  public  wharves, 
parks  or  places  in  anywise  owned,  occupied  or  con- 
trolled by  the  City,  necessary  or  required  for  the 
making  of  any  alterations  or  changes  provided  for  in 
the  plans  and  profiles  approved  as  aforesaid  or  in 
said  agreement,  or  necessary  or  required  for  the 
proper  operation  of  trains  and  cars  in  and  upon  the 
railroad  constructed  or  changed  in  accordance  with 
said  plans  and  profiles  or  in  and  upon  the  yards,  sta- 
tions and  terminals  connected  therewith  and  the 
approaches  thereto  (which  the  City,  acting  by  this 
Board,  is  authorized  by  said  Act  in  its  discretion  to 
grant  to  the  Railroad  Company)  and  also  makes  pro- 
vision for  the  conveyance  by  the  Railroad  Company 
to  the  City  of  the  lands,  lands  under  water,  rights, 
interests  or  easements  therein,  or  rights,  easements 
or  privileges  in  streets,  avenues,  ways,  public  parks, 
wharves  or  places  to  be  granted  or  surrendered  by 
the  Railroad  Company  to  the  City  for  any  public 
purpose  of  the  City ; 

Now,  therefore,  resolved:  That  the  grant  which 
The  City  of  New  York,  acting  by  its  Board  of  Esti- 
mate and  Apportionment  is  authorized  and  empow- 
ered to  make  to  the  said  Railroad  Company  in  and 
by  Section  8 of  Chapter  777  of  the  Laws  of  1911  shall 
be  by  deed  conveying  to  the  said  Railroad  Company 
the  premises  mentioned  in  Article  Two  of  the  said 


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agreement  and  that  the  grant  which  the  Railroad 
Company  is  to  make  to  The  City  of  New  York,  as 
provided  in  Article  Two  of  said  agreement  shall  be 
contained  in  the  same  instrument  in  writing. 

Such  deed  shall  be  given  by  the  City  and  accepted 
by  the  Railroad  Company  for  the  uses  and  purposes 
and  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  said 
Chapter  777  of  the  Laws  of  1911 ; 

Further  resolved  : That  said  deed  shall  be  pre- 

pared and  approved  as  to  form  by  the  Corporation 
Counsel  and  shall  be  executed  in  duplicate  on  the 
part  of  the  City  by  the  Mayor  and  the  Comptroller, 
under  the  corporate  seal  of  The  City  of  New  York, 
and  by  the  Railroad  Company  under  its  corporate 
seal  and  by  its  proper  officers.  ” 

Now,  therefore,  the  Railroad  Company,  in  consider- 
ation of  the  premises  and  of  the  grant  hereinafter  con- 
tained from  the  City  to  the  Railroad  Company,  does 
hereby  grant  and  release  unto  the  City,  its  successors 
and  assigns,  forever: 


I. 

All  those  fifteen  (15)  certain  pieces  or  parcels  of  lands 
and  lands  under  water  situate  in  the  Borough  of  Manhat- 
tan, City,  County  and  State  of  New  York,  bounded  and 
described  as  follows : 

PARCEL  No.  i. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-first  (71st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
easterly  forty  (40)  feet  from  the  Bulkhead  Line  approved 
by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Seventieth 
(70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


Fee  granted  by 
Railroad  Company. 


W.  70th  to  W. 
71st  Streets. 


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W.  71st  to  W. 
72nd  Streets. 


Eight  of  way  W. 
72nd  to  W.  129th 
Streets. 


PARCEL  No.  2. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
easterly  forty  (40)  feet  from  the  Bulkhead  Line  approved 
by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Seventy-First 
(71st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 


PARCEL  No.  3. 

Beginning  at  a corner  or  angle  in  the  westerly  ex- 
terior line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  and  in  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed),  said  point  of  beginning  being 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company  ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  along  said  westerly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  six  thousand 
three  hundred  and  fifty-five  (6,355)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a corner  or  angle  opposite  station  248  + 61.2  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  westerly 
exterior  line,  thirteen  (13)  feet,  to  a corner  or  angle; 

Thence  northerly  continuing  along  said  westerly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line  one  hundred  and 
six  (106)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle  opposite 
station  249+67±of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  westerly 
exterior  line,  thirteen  (13)  feet,  to  a corner  or  angle; 

Thence  northerly  continuing  along  said  westerly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  and  distant 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  therefrom,  eight  thousand  eight  hun- 


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dred  and  thirty  (8,830)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th) 
Street ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street  seventy  five 
(75)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  forty- 
one  and  five  hundred  and  sixty-five  thousandths  (41.565) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  fifty  (50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a corner  or  angle  distant  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  337  -f-  51.4  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  one  hundred  and  sixty-six  (166)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  an  angle  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  335  -f- 
89.4  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four  thousand 
three  hundred  and  seventy-one  (4,371)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a corner  or  angle  opposite  station  292  + 12  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  forty -four  (44)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner 
or  angle  distant  easterly  thirty  (30)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  291+68± 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a cor- 
ner or  angle  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  290+78± 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  three  thousand 


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four  hundred  and  eleven  (3,411)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  256  + 67.43  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  easterly 
exterior  line  seven  (7)  feet  to  a corner  or  angle  distant 
forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly  continuing  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  six  hundred  and 
forty-one  (641)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle 
opposite  station  250  -f-  26.25  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 
line  seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle  dis- 
tant easterly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line  eight  hundred  and 
ninety-seven  (897)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  an  angle  opposite 
station  241  + 33.78  of  said  centerline; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  fifty-nine  (59)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner 
or  angle  distant  forty  (40)  feet  radially  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  240  + 74.7  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  and  along  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  hundred 
and  thirty- six  (236)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or 
angle  about  opposite  station  238  + 33.63  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  easterly 
exterior  line,  seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or 
angle  in  said  exterior  line  distant  easterly  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  fifty  (2,950)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a cor- 
ner or  angle  opposite  station  208  + 88.85  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 


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line,  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet  to  a 
corner  or  angle  in  said  exterior  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four  hundred 
and  seventeen  (417)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle 
opposite  station  204+72±of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior  line, 
at  right  angles  to  said  center  line  seven  (7)  feet  to  a corner 
or  angle  in  said  exterior  line; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  exterior 
line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  and  distant  thirty- 
three  (33)  feet  therefrom,  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and 
sixty  (1,960)  feet,  more  or  les3,  to  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Seventy- Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy- Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  begin- 
ning. 

Reserving  to  the  Railroad  Company  the  right  to  con-  Reservations  by 
struct  and  operate  its  railroad  upon  said  parcel  No.  3,  Railroad  Company, 
until  the  time  limited  in  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of 
the  said  agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad 
Company,  within  which  the  Railroad  Company  is  to  com- 
plete the  changes  shown  on  the  said  plans  and  profiles 
hereinabove  referred  to  (hereinafter  called  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916)  affecting  said  Parcel  No.  3. 

Reserving  also  to  the  Railroad  Company,  its  successors 
and  assigns,  the  easements  required  for  the  construction, 
equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of  its  railroad 
in,  through  and  upon  all  those  portions  of  said  Parcel 
No.  3,  bounded  and  described  in  Subdivisions  “a” 
and  “b  ” hereof  following,  said  easements  as  to  the  por- 
tion thereof  specified  in  the  said  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  to  be  exercised  below 
the  covering  or  roof  provided  for  in  subdivision  B of 
Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  the  said  agreement,  and  said 


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covering  or  roof  and  the  supporting  structures  thereof 
are  to  be  built  by  the  Railroad  Company  for  and  in  behalf 
of,  and  upon  lands  owned  or  to  be  acquired  by,  the  City, 
and  said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  structures  are  to 
be  and  remain  the  property  of  the  City : 

a.  Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
said  point  being  distant  westerly  thirty- three  (33)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said 
center  line  one  thousand  and  thirty-five  (1035)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  about  opposite  station  195  -f-  58  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  a curved  line  convex  to  the 
east,  drawn  ' with  a radius  of  eight  hundred  (800) 
feet,  one  hundred  and  ninety-three  (193)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  eleven  (11)  feet,  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  197  + 46  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line  six  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  (678)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-Ninth  (79th)  Street,  dis- 
tant easterly  eleven  (11)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-Ninth  (79th)  Street,  forty-two  and  five  tenths 
(42.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
thirty-one  and  five  tenths  (31.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a line  drawn  northwardly  from 
the  termination  of  the  last  described  course,  to  a point 
distant  westerly,  forty-three  (43)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  210  + 23 
of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less, 


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to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four 
hundred  and  ninety-nine  (499)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  210  + 23  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  line  drawn 
northwardly  as  above  described  thirty- two  (32)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  one  (1)  foot,  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  parallel  with  said  center  line,  twenty- 
seven  (27)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
210  -f  50  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  along  a straight  line  two 
hundred  and  fifty-seven  (257)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  eighteen  and  five  tenths  (18.5)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
213  -f-  07  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  along  a straight  line 
one  hundred  and  sixty-one  (161)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  distant  easterly  seven  (7)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  214  + 67  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  'northerly  along  a straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  from  the  termination  of  the  last 
above  described  course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  eigh- 
teen (18)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  225  -f-  50  of  said  center  line,  five  hundred 
and  thirteen  (513)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  219  + 80  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  five  (5)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty- three  (33) 
feet  radially  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  concentric  with  said  center  line, 


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thirty-six  (36)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  220  + 16  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  four  and  five 
tenths  (4.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  straight 
line,  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  five  hundred  and  thirty-four 
(534)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  westerly 
eighteen  (18)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  said  station  225  + 50  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a straight  line,  drawn 
northwardly  from  the  termination  of  the  last  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  fourteen  (14)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  228 
+ 83  of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  sixty-three 
(163)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  227 
-f-  13  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirteen  (13) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line  parallel  to  said 
straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  sev- 
enty (70)  feet  to  a point  opposite  station  227  + 83  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course,  thirteen  (13)  feet  to  a point  in  said 
straight  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  about  one  hundred  (100)  feet 
to  said  point  distant  westerly  fourteen  (14)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line  measured  at  station  228  + 83  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 


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drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  and  forty-six 
(3046)  feet,  three  hundred  and  ninety-four  (394)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  fourteen  (14) 
feet  radially  from  said  center  line  measured  at  station 
232  + 75  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  three  hundred  and 
thirty  (330)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
eighteeen  (18)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measu'red  at  station  236  + 04  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-one  (31)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  239 
+ 66  of  said  center  line,  seventy-seven  (77)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  236  + 80  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twelve  (12) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  thirty- 
six  (36)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
237  + 16  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  eleven  (11)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  straight  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  two  hundred  and  fifty  (250) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  westerly  thirty- 
one  (31)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  239  + 66  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thousand  four 


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hundred  and  fifty-nine  (11,459)  feet,  ninety-seven  (97) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  westerly  exterior 
line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Company,  distant  westerly 
thirty-three  (33)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  240  + 63  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing*  northerly,  along  said  exterior  line, 
concentric  with  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  ninety- 
five  (195)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
242  + 58  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand  six 
hundred  and  eighty- two  (5682)  feet,  six  hundred  and 
fifty-nine  (659)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly,  twenty  (20)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  249  + 17  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east 
drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty-nine  (11,459)  feet,  sixty-eight  (68)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Ninety-Sixth  (96th)  Street,  distant  westerly  nineteen 
(19)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Ninety-Sixth  (96th)  Street,  fourteen  (14)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four 
hundred  and  seventy- three  (473)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  254  + 59  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
eighteen  (18)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly fifteen  (15)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 


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wardly  from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  three  and  five  tenths 
(3.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  280  + 16  of  said  center  line,  eight  hundred  and 
thirty-three  (833)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  262  + 92  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described  thirteen  (13) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  ninety-eight  (98) 
feet; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  nine  (9)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  thirty- 
six  (36)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
264  + 26  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described  twenty-two  (22) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  straight  line,  drawn 
northwardly  as  above  described ; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  one  thousand  five  hundred 
and  fifty-four  (1554)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
opposite  station  279  + 80  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
thirty-six  (36)  feet,  to  a point  opposite  station  280  + 16 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 


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drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet,  to  the  point  in  said  straight  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  distant  westerly  three  and 
five  tenths  (3.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  280  + 16  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line  one  hundred  and 
sixty-nine  (169)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  four  and  five  tenths  (4.5)  feet  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  281  + 85  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  ten  thousand  (10,000)  feet,  nine 
hundred  and  two  (902)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 
tant westerly  four  and  five  tenths  (4.5)  feet  radially  from 
said  center  line  measured  at  station  290  + 87  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line  one  hundred  and 
seventy  (170)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly three  and  five  tenths  (3.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  292  + 57  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  seven  and  five  tenths 
(7.5)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  295+  00  of  said  center  line,  twenty-three  (23) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  292  + 80 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line  drawn 
northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36)  feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 


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drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet,  to  a point  in  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  eighty- 
four  (184)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  west- 
erly seven  and  five  tenths  (7.5)  feet  radially  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  said  station  295  + 00  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-four  and  ninety-three  hundredths  (2864.93) 
feet,  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  eleven  and  five  tenths  (11.5)  feet,  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  295  + 90  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  four  hundred  and 
sixty  (460)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  about  station  300  + 50  of  said  center 

line , 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line  and 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  therefrom,  two 
thousand  three  hundred  (2300)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  323  + 50  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  and  thirty-six  hundredths  (3125.36) 
feet,  two  hundred  and  fifty -five  (255)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  said  center  line  at  station  326  + 00  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  northwardly  with  a radius  of  three 
thousand,  four  hundred  and  thirty-seven  and  eighty- 
seven  hundredths  (3437.87)  feet,  from  the  termination 


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of  tlie  last  above  described  course,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  thirty-seven  and  five  tenths  (37.5)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  329  + 37  of 
said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  eighty-two  (182)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  westerly  radially  to  said  curved  line,  drawn 
northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight  (28) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly,  concentric  with  said  curved  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet,  to  a point  opposite  station  328  + 18  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  said  curved  line,  drawn 
northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight  (28) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  curved  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described  fifty-seven  (57)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty- three  (33)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  three 
thousand  six  hundred  and  sixty-three  (3663)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  292  + 12  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  forty-four  (44)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty  (30)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  about 
station  291  + 68  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty- three  (33)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  about  station 
290  + 78  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  three  thousand  four  hundred  and  eleven  (3411)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  256  + 67.43  of 
said  center  line; 


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Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  seven  (7)  feet  to 
a point  distant  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  six 
hundred  and  forty-one  (641)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
opposite  station  250  + 26.25  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  seven  (7)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  eight 
hundred  and  ninety-seven  (897)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  241  -f  33.78  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  fifty-nine  (59)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  forty  (40)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  240  + 74.7  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  two  hundred  and  thirty-six  (236)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  about  opposite  station  238  + 33.63  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  the  easterly 
exterior  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company 
seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 

line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line  two 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  fifty  (2950)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  208  + 88.85  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  at  right  angles  to 
said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four 
hundred  and  seventeen  (417)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
opposite  about  station  204  + 72  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  at  right  angles 
to  said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet; 


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Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  and 
distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  easterly  therefrom,  one 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  sixty  (1960)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-Second  (72nd) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
sixtv-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  be- 
ginning. 

b.  Also  beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street, 
said  point  being  distant  easterly  forty-one  and  five  hun- 
dred and  sixty-five  thousandths  (41.565)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  southerly  along  a line,  drawn  from 
the  point  or  place  of  beginning  to  a point  distant  easterly 
forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  337  + 51.4  of  said  center  line,  forty- 
five  (45)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  a line  drawn 
northwardly  from  a point  distant  easterly  sixty-nine 
(69)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line  measured 
at  station  336  + 00  of  said  center  line,  to  a point  in  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth 
(129th)  Street,  distant  easterly  thirty-two  (32)  feet,  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  line,  drawn  northwardly 
as  above  described,  forty-five  (45)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
said  point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street,  distant  easterly  thirty- 
two  (32)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129tli)  Street,  nine  and  five 
tenths  (9.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 


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PARCEL  No.  4. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of  w 129ti1  to  w. 
the  northerly  line  of  West  One  hundred  and  Twenty-  130th  streets, 
ninth  (129th)  Street  with  the  westerly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  said  point  of  beginning 
being  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said  Rail- 
road Company ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  along  said  westerly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  hundred  and 
one  (201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  (130th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirtieth  (130th)  Street,  fifty  (50)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  two  hundred  and 
sixty  (260)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  in  a straight  line  two  hundred  (200) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street  distant 
westerly  two  hundred  and  sixty-nine  (269)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street,  sixty- two 
(62)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  5. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  w.  lrist  to  w. 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  14'Jlld  Streets> 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  two  hun- 
dred ninety-six  and  five  tenths  (296.5)  feet,  more  or  less, 
from  the  northwesterly  corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line 


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of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  three  and  five  tenths  (3.5)  feet, 
more  or  less; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one 
hundred  and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches, 
more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  seventy-seven  (77)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  southwesterly  two  hundred  and  twelve  (212) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  6. 

w.  i42na  to  w.  Beqinning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  distant  westerly  two  hundred  and  one  and 
five  tenths  (201.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  northwest- 
erly corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second 
(142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  ninety-eight  and  five  tenths 
(98.5)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  one 
hundred  and  ninety- nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches, 
more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 


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and  closed),  one  hundred  and  seventy-one  and  five  tenths 
(171.5)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  southwesterly,  two  hundred  and  twelve  (212) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  7. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  „ 143rd  to  w. 

144th  Streets 

Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred and  seven  (107)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  north- 
westerly corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third 
(143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed),  one  hundred  and  ninety-three 
(193)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one 
hundred  and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches, 
more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  three  hundred  (300)  feet  to  the  westerly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  one  hundred 
and  nineteen  (119)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northwesterly  seventy- three  (73)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  a line  drawn  northeastwardly  and  pass- 
ing through  the  point  or  place  of  beginning  from  a point 
in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  distant 


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W.  144th  to  W. 
145th  Streets  west 
of  12  th  Avenue. 


W.  144th  to  W. 
145th  Streets  east 
of  12th  Avenue. 


westerly  two  hundred  ninety-six  and  five  tenths  (296.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  northwesterly  corner  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  southwesterly  along  said  line,  drawn  north- 
eastwardly as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  eleven 
and  five  tenths  (111.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  8. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  9. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth 
(145th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  with  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  running  thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  fifty-six  and  five  tenths  (56.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  ninety-four 
and  thirty- three  hundredths  (94.33)  feet  at  right  angles 


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from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  four  hundred  and  ninety-nine 
(499)  feet,  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  ninety-nine  (99)  feet,  more  or  less,  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
379  + 46  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  southwardly  with  a radius  of  six  hun- 
dred and  thirty-seven  (637)  feet  from  the  termination  of 
the  last  above  described  course  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly one  hundred  and  thirty-seven  (137)  feet,  more  or 
less,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  377  + 95  of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and 
thirty-live  (135)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed),  distant  northerly  seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less, 
from  the  northeasterly  corner  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed)  and  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  one  hundred 
and  ninety-two  (192)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  io. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  w.  145th  to  w, 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued  146th  Streets- 
and  closed),  said  point  of  beginning  being  distant  west- 
erly ninety-four  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (94.33)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed),  sixty-eight  (68)  feet,  more  or 


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less,  to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (dis- 
continued and  closed) ; 

Thence  northerly  along-  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12tli)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one  hundred 
and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches,  more  or 
less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  eiglity-seven  (87)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east,  drawn  with  a 
radius  of  four  thousand  two  hundred  and  ninety-seven 
(4,297)  feet,  northwardly  from  a point  distant  westerly 
ninety-four  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (94.33)'  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
381  + 63  of  said  center  line,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
ninety-seven  (97)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  384  + 00  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  curved  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  fifty-one 
(151)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  westerly 
ninety-four  and  thirty- three  hundredths  (94.33)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  said  sta- 
tion 381  + 63  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  fifty 
(50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  ii. 

w.  i5ist  to  w.  Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
152nd  streets.  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed)  with  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed), 


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two  hundred  and  nine  and  eighty-six  hundredths  (209.86) 
feet  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
Second  (152nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  three  hundred  and  forty-four  and  ninety-eight 
hundredths  (341.98)  feet  to  the  westerly  line  of  the  grant 
from  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Commonalty  of  the  City 
of  New  York  to  Richard  Carman,  dated  December  30th, 

1852; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  said  grant, 
one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  and  eighty-four  hundredths 
(199.84)  feet  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  four  hundred  and  nine  and  six  hundredths 
(409.06)  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  12. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  w.  152nd  to  w. 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  15ortl  Streets- 
and  closed)  with  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  three  hundred  and  twenty-five 
and  seventy-three  hundredths  (325.73)  feet,  to  the  west- 
erly line  of  the  grant  from  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and 
Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New  York  to  Richard  Car- 
man, dated  December  30th,  1852 ; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  boundary  line  of 
said  parcel  of  land  conveyed  as  aforesaid,  one  hundred 
and  ninety -nine  and  eighty-four  hundredths  (199.84)  feet 


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W.  158th  Street. 


.Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


to  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
Third  (153rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Third  (153rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  two  hundred  and  sixty-one  and  sixty-two 
hundredths  (261.62)  feet  to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  two  hundred 
and  nine  and  eighty-six  hundredths  (209.86)  feet  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  13. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
Eighth  (158th)  Street  with  the  easterly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  said  point  of  beginning 
being  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said  Rail- 
road Company; 

And  running  thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said 
center  line  sixty-six  (66)  feet  to  the  westerly  exterior 
line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line, 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  nineteen  (19)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  former  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-Eighth  (158th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  former  southerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth  (158th)  Street, 
sixty-eight  (68)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  be- 
ginning. 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  Railroad  Company,  its  suc- 
cessors and  assigns,  the  easements  required  for  the  con- 
struction, equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of  its 
railroad  in,  through  and  upon  said  Parcel  No.  13;  said 


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easements  are  to  be  exercised  below  the  bridge  provided 
by  subdivision  K of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company 
to  be  constructed  in  part  over  and  across  the  said  parcel 
of  land. 

PARCEL  No.  14. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  westerly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  the  Railroad  Company  distant  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the 
railroad  of  said  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  station 
462+00  of  said  center  line ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  along  said  exterior  line, 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  one  thousand  three  hundred 
(1,300)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  475 
+ 00  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  said  center  line,  sixty-six 
(66)  feet  to  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Rail- 
road Company; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  exterior  line,  parallel  with 
said  center  line,  one  thousand  three  hundred  (1,300)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  said  station  462  + 00  of 
said  center  line ; 

And  thence  westerly  radially  to  said  center  line  sixty- 
six  (66)  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  Railroad  Company,  its  suc- 
cessors and  assigns,  the  easements  required  for  the  con- 
struction, equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of  its 
railroad  in,  through,  and  upon  all  that  portion  of  said 
Parcel  No.  14  hereinafter  described;  said  easements  are 
to  be  exercised  below  the  covering  or  roof  provided  for 
in  subdivision  II  of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company, 
and  said  covering  or  roof  and  the  supporting  structures 


Right  of  Way 
Fort  Washington 
Park. 


Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


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Right  of  Way 
Dyckman  Street 
to  Spuyten  Duy- 
vil  Creek. 


thereof  are  to  be  built  by  the  Railroad  Company  for  and 
in  behalf  of,  and  upon  lands  owned  or  to  be  acquired  by, 
the  City,  and  said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  struc- 
tures are  to  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the  City: 

Beginning  at  a point  distant  westerly  twenty-seven 
and  six  hundred  and  sixty-five  thousandths  (27.665)  feet, 
radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  station  462  + 00 
of  said  center  line ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  thousand  three  hundred  (1300)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  475  + 00  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  said  center  line  fifty-five 
and  thirty-three  hundredths  (55.33)  feet  to  a point  dis- 
tant easterly  twenty-seven  and  six  hundred  and  sixty-five 
thousandths  (27.665)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly  along  a line,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  thousand  three  hundred  (1300)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  said  station  462  + 00  of  said 
center  line ; 

And  thence  westerly  radially  to  said  center  line  fifty- 
five  and  thirty- three  hundredths  (55.33)  feet  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  15. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street  with  the  westerly 
exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  said  point 
of  beginning  being  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  radially 
from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said 
Railroad  Company ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  along  said  exterior  line 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  three  thousand  three 
hundred  and  seventy- two  (3,372)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 


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Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  October 
18th,  1890,  on  the  southerly  side  of  the  Harlem  River  Ship 
Canal  or  Spuyten  Dnyvil  Creek; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  Bulkhead  Line  to  a point  in 
the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company 
distant  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  exterior  line,  parallel  with 
said  center  line  three  hundred  and  ten  (310)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a corner  or  angle  opposite  station  578  + 49.28  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 
line  radially  to  said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet  to  a corner 
or  angle  in  said  exterior  line; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  the  easterly  exterior 
line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Company,  parallel  with  said 
center  line,  seven  hundred  and  three  (703)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a corner  or  angle  opposite  station  571  + 46.33  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 
line,  radially  to  said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet  to  a corner 
or  angle  in  said  exterior  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  exterior 
line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four  hundred  and 
thirty-one  (431)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle 
opposite  station  567 -f  13.72  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 
line,  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line,  seven  (7)  feet  to  a 
corner  or  angle  in  said  exterior  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  continuing  along  said  easterly  ex- 
terior line,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  thousand 
and  thirty-one  (2,031)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or 
angle  opposite  station  546  + 83  of  said  center  line  ; 

Thence  easterly  along  a jog  or  offset  in  said  exterior 
line  thirty  (30)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of 
Dyckman  Street; 


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Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman 
Street,  ninety-nine  (99)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  Railroad  Company,  its 
successors  and  assigns,  the  right  for  the  maintenance 
and  operation  of  its  railroad  in,  through  and  upon  said 
Parcel  No.  15  until  such  time  as  the  City  shall  grant 
to  the  Railroad  Company  the  easements  required  for 
the  construction,  equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of 
its  railroad,  upon  and  over  the  new  right-of-way  of  the 
Railroad  Company  between  Spuyten  Duyvil  Creek  and 
Dyckman  Street,  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916,  and  until  such  further  time  as  the  Railroad 
Company  shall  have  constructed  its  railroad  thereon 
pursuant  to  such  grant,  as  provided  for  in  subdivision  C 
of  Section  4 of  Article  Three  of  said  agreement  between 
the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company. 

Reserving,  also,  to  the  Railroad  Company,  its  succes- 
sors and  assigns,  the  easements  required  for  the  construc- 
tion, equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of  its  rail- 
road in,  through  and  upon  all  that  portion  of  said  Parcel 
No.  15,  bounded  and  described  as  follows: 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman 
Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  rail- 
road of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  sixty-seven  (5967)  feet,  concentric  with  said 
center  line,  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  (128)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  a line  drawn  northwardly  from 
a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street,  distant 
westerly  fifty  (50)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  to 
a point  in  the  said  center  line  at  station  550  + 25  of  said 
center  line ; 


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Thence  northerly  along  said  line  drawn  northwardly 
as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  ninety-two  (192) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  station  550  + 25  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing-  northerly  along  the  prolongation 
of  the  last  above  described  course  one  hundred  and 
thirty-two  (132)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle 
opposite  station  551  + 55  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course  six  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (6.33) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly  along  a line  drawn  northwardly 
from  the  last  above  described  course,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  one  hundred  and  forty-five  and  thirty-three 
hundredths  (145.33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  569  + 00  of  said  center 
line,  fifty  (50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  east- 
erly thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  five 
hundred  and  twenty-five  (525)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  about  opposite  station  546  -f  83  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  about  forty-seven  (47)  feet,  radially 
from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  three 
and  five  tenths  (3.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  Dyckman  Street; 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Dyck- 
man Street,  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  Railroad  Company  as  to 
Parcels  No.  1 to  No.  15,  both  inclusive,  the  easements  re- 
quired for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  drainage 


Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


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Surrender  of  sur- 
face occupancy,  by 
Railroad  Company. 


pipes,  in  accordance  with  plans  to  be  approved  by  the 
Board,  reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  opera- 
tion of  tlie  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  below  the 
surface  of  tlie  ground  extending  westerly  to  the  waters 
of  tlie  Hudson  River. 


II. 

Also  all  the  right,  title  and  interest  of  tlie  Railroad 
Company  in  and  to  the  surface  occupation  by  said  Rail- 
road Company  of  the  following  streets,  avenues  and  pub- 
lic places  and  portions  thereof  as  at  present  in  occupation 
in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan,  City  of  New  York: 

All  that  part  of  Hudson  Street  from  North  Moore  Street 
on  the  south  to  Canal  Street  on  the  north  ; 

All  that  part  of  Canal  Street  from  Hudson  Street  on  the 
east  to  West  Street  on  the  west; 

All  those  portions  of  West  Street  and  the  Marginal 
Way  from  Canal  Street  on  the  south  to  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue  on  the  north  ; 

All  that  part  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue  from  West  Street 
and  the  Marginal  Way  on  the  south  to  West  Thirty- 
First  (31st)  Street  on  the  north  ; 

All  that  part  of  Gansevoort  Street,  west  of  West 
Street ; 

All  that  part  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  between 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue  on  the  west  and  Ninth  (9th)  Avenue 
on  the  east ; 

All  those  portions  of  West  Thirty-First  (31st)  and  West 
Thirty-Second  (32nd)  Streets  between  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue 
on  the  east  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  on  the  west; 

All  those  portions  of  West  Thirty-Third  (33rd)  and 
West  Thirty-Fifth  (35th)  Streets  between  Eleventh  (11th) 
Avenue  on  the  east  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  on  the 
west ; 

All  those  portions  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  and  the 
Marginal  Way  between  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  on 


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the  south  and  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street  on  the 
north ; 

All  that  part  of  Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue  between  West 
Twenty- Seventh  (27tli)  Street  on  the  south  and  West 
Fifty-Ninth  (59th)  Street  on  the  north  ; 

All  that  part  of  West  End  Avenue  between  West  Fifty- 
Ninth  (59th)  Street  on  the  south  and  West  Sixty-Second 
(62nd)  Street  on  the  north  ; 

All  that  part  of  West  Thirty-Ninth  (39th)  Street  be- 
tween Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue  on  the  east  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  on  the  west; 

All  that  part  of  West  Forty-First  (41st)  Street  between 
Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue  on  the  east  and  Twelfth  .(12th) 
Avenue  on  the  west; 

All  that  part  of  West  Fifty-Eight  (58th)  Street  be- 
tween Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue  on  the  east  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  on  the  west ; 

All  that  part  of  West  Fifty-Ninth  (59th)  Street  be- 
tween Eleventh  (lltli)  Avenue  on  the  east  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  on  the  west. 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  Railroad  Company  the  right 
to  maintain  and  operate  its  railroad  at  grade  as  at  present 
upon  and  over  the  streets,  avenues  and  public  places, 
mentioned  in  this  subdivision  II,  until  the  time  men- 
tioned in  subdivision  A of  Section  1 and  subdivision  A 
of  Section  2 of  Article  Three  of  the  said  agreement 
between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company. 


IIT. 

The  overhead  rights  required  for  the  construction 
and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof,  with  necessary 
abutments  and  supports,  to  be  used  as  part  of  the  park  sys- 
tem of  the  City  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916, 
and  to  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the  City,  upon  and 


Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


Overhead  rights 
for  covering  or 
roof,  granted  by 
Railroad  Company. 


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over  the  following  described  parcels  of  land,  the  covering 
or  roof  is  to  be  constructed  as  provided  in  subdivision  D of 
Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  the  said  agreement  between 
the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company,  and  all  the  pro- 
visions of  said  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three 
of  said  agreement  shall  be  applicable  to  the  overhead 
rights  herein  granted : 

PARCEL  No.  i. 

w 135th  to  w Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
138th  Streets.  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line 
of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company ; 

And  running  thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  (285)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  the  southerly  liue  of  land  conveyed  by  New  York  In- 
vestment and  Improvement  Company  to  New  York  State 
Realty  and  Terminal  Company,  by  deed  dated  May  26th, 
1911,  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  Register  of  the  County 
of  New  York  in  Section  7,  Liber  153  of  Deeds,  page  44; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  said  land 
conveyed  by  said  deed,  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four 
(4)  inches  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
hundred  and  sixty-eight  (168)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh 
(137th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West 


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One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty- six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two 
hundred  and  one  (201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  four  (4)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southwesterly 
corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  one  hundred  and 
ninety-six  and  seventy-nine  hundredths  (196.79)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  (198)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth 
(138th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  sixty-six  and  forty-one  hundredths  (66.41) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  seven 
hundred  and  twenty-one  (721)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth 
(135th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 


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One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  sixty-six  and  forty-one  hundredths 
(66.41)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 


PARCEL  No.  2. 


W.  138th  to  W. 
145th  Streets. 


Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monnmented  center  line 
of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company ; 

And  running  thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  six  hundred  and  sixty-nine  (669)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discon- 
tinued and  closed); 

Thence  northerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  tifty-six  and 
sixty-seven  hundredths  (56.67)  feet,  to  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed); 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  six  (6)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  twelve  (12)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  one  hundred  and 
twenty-three  (123)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 


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westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  seventy- 
seven  (77)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line  two 
hundred  and  one  (201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point, 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 


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tant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two 
hundred  and  one  (201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty  six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point, 
distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two 
hundred  and  one  (201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  ninety-two  (92)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point, 
distant  easterly  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy  (1770)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (dis- 


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continued  and  closed)  sixty-six  and  forty-one  hundredths 
(66.41)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  3. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  fifty-eight 
(58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at  right  angles  from  the 
monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad 
Company ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  parallel  with  said  center 
line  forty-six  (46)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  381  + 63  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curve  convex  to  the  east,  drawn 
with  a radius  of  four  thousand  two  hundred  and  ninety- 
seven  (4297)  feet  from  and  tangent  to  the  last  above 
described  course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  sixty- 
two  (62)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches  radially  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  384  + 00  of  said  center 
line,  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  (155)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty-nine  (29)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point, 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet,  radially  from  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
thousand,  three  hundred  and  eighty  (1380)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  eleven  (11)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 


W.  145th  Street 
to  Station  398. 


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Reservation  by 
Railroad  Company. 


distant  forty-four  (44)  feet  and  two  (2)  inches  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  eighty 
(80)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
398  + 00  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
seventy-seven  (77)  feet  and  two  (2)  inches,  more  or  less, 
to  a point,  distant  easterly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
thousand,  six  hundred  and  eighty-one  (1681)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed),  ninety- two  (92)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  place  of  beginning. 

Reserving  to  the  Railroad  Company  as  to  the  parcels 
above  described  as  Parcel  No.  1 to  Parcel  No.  3,  both 
inclusive,  the  right  to  attach  to  said  covering  or  roof  to 
be  constructed  over  the  said  parcels  of  land  above  de- 
scribed, and  to  cariy  by  and  in  the  walls  of  the  supporting 
stractures  of  such  covering  or  roof,  the  communicating 
and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits,  telegraph,  tele- 
phone, lighting,  control  and  power  wires  and  cables, 
lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  appliances,  third 
rails  and  overhead  working  conductors  or  other  appli- 
ances transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and 
negative  connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection 
and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  the  fire  alarm  and 
fire  protection  systems  of  the  Railroad  Company  reason- 
ably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its 
railroad. 


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IV. 

The  overhead  rights  required  for  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  a viaduct  and  the  supporting  structures 
thereof  over  and  across  the  parcel  of  land  hereinafter 
described;  said  viaduct  and  supporting  structures  shall 
be  so  constructed  and  maintained  as  to  permit  of  the 
standard  side  and  overhead  clearances  of  the  Railroad 
Company,  and  shall  also  be  so  constructed  and  main- 
tained as  not  to  interfere  with  the  safe  and  proper  main- 
tenance, management  and  operation  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company  thereunder: 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sev- 
entieth (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed),  distant 
easterly  forty-five  (45)  feet  more  or  less  from  the  Bulk- 
head Line  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War  April  25th, 
1890,  and  running  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed),  five  (5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  east- 
erly, forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  said  Bulk- 
head Line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  Bulkhead  Line  and 
distant  forty  (40)  feet  easterly  therefrom,  two  (2)  feet, 
more  or  less. 

Thence  southeasterly,  six  (6)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

V. 

The  overhead  rights  required  for  the  construction 
and  maintenance  of  a bridge  over  and  across  the  parcel 
of  land  hereinafter  described;  said  bridge  shall  be  so 
constructed  and  maintained  as  to  permit  of  the  standard 
side  and  overhead  clearances  of  the  Railroad  Company, 
and  shall  also  he  so  constructed  and  maintained  as  not  to 
interfere  with  the  safe  and  proper  maintenance,  man- 


Overhead  rights 
for  viaduct,  grant- 
e d by  Railroad 
Company. 


West  70th  Street. 


Overhead  rights 
for  Hendrick  Hud- 
son Memorial 
Bridge,  granted  by 
Railroad  Company. 


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agement  and  operation  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad 
Company  thereunder : 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northeasterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  with  the  southeasterly  line  of  the  pro- 
posed Hendrick  Hudson  Memorial  Bridge  as  shown 
on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  said  point  of  be- 
ginning being  distant  twenty-five  (25)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company,  formerly  the  railroad  of  the  Spuyten 
Duyvil  and  Port  Morris  Railroad  Company,  said  point  of 
beginning  being  also  distant  southeasterly  forty  (40)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  center  line  of  said  proposed 
bridge ; 

And  running  thence  southwesterly,  parallel  with  the 
center  line  of  said  proposed  bridge,  one  hundred  and 
fifty-seven  and  five  tenths  (157.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  southwesterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Railroad 
Company ; 

Thence  northwesterly  along  said  southwesterly  exterior 
line,  fourteen  (14)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a comer  or  angle 
in  said  exterior  line,  distant  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
eight  (128)  feet,  more  or  less,  southwesterly  at  right 
angles  from  said  monumented  center  line,  measured  at 
station  585  -f-  60  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northwesterly  along  said  southwest- 
erly exterior  line,  seventy  (70)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  northwesterly  forty  (40)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  center  line  of  said  proposed  bridge ; 

Thence  northeasterly,  parallel  with  the  center  line  of 
said  proposed  bridge,  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  (157) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northeasterly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  said  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southeasterly  along  said  northeasterly  exterior 
line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company  parallel  with  said 


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monumented  center  line,  eighty-three  (83)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

TO  HAVE  AND  TO  HOLD  the  lands  and  lands  under 
water,  rights,  interests  and  easements  therein  above  de- 
scribed under  subdivisions  I,  II,  III,  IV  and  V,  unto  the 
City,  its  successors  and  assigns  forever. 

In  respect  of  the  portions  of  the  lands  above  described 
in  sub-divisions  I,  III,  IV  and  V,  which  lie  above  origi- 
nal high  water  mark,  the  Railroad  Company  does  forever 
warrant  the  title  of  such  lands  and  of  the  rights,  interest 
and  easements  therein  herein  granted  by  the  Railroad 
Company  to  the  City. 

And  the  City,  in  consideration  of  the  premises  and 
of  the  grant  hereinbefore  contained  on  the  part  of  the 
Railroad  Company,  and  of  the  covenants  on  the  part  of 
the  Railroad  Company  in  respect  of  the  construction  of 
certain  coverings  or  roofs  for  and  in  behalf  of  the  City 
contained  in  the  said  agreement  between  the  Board  and 
the  Railroad  Company,  does  hereby  grant  and  release 
unto  the  Railroad  Company,  its  successors  and  assigns 
forever: 


I. 

All  those  certain  forty-eight  parcels  of  lands  and  lands 
under  water  situate  in  the  City  and  State  of  New  York, 
bounded  and  described  as  follows : 

PARCEL  No.  i. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Spring 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Canal  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  West  Street. 


Fee  granted  by 
City. 


Canal  Street  to 
north  line  of  Spring 
Street. 


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Charlton  Street. 


W.  60th  to  W. 
61st  Streets  west 
of  bulkhead  line. 


W.  61st  to  W. 
62nd  Streets  west 
of  bulkhead  line. 


W.  62nd  to  W. 
63rd  Streets  west 
of  bulkhead  line. 


PARCEL  No.  2. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Charlton 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Charlton  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by,  the  easterly  line  of  West  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  3. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Sixty-First  (61st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  April  25th,  1890 ; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixtieth  (60tli) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  4. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Second  (62nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-First 
(61st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  5. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Third  (63rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Second 
(62nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


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PARCEL  No.  6. 


Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Fifth  (65th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Fourth 
(64th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


W.  64th  to  W. 
65th  Streets  west 
of  bulkhead  line. 


PARCEL  No.  7. 

Bounded  northerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  ^ w.  59th  to  w. 
distant  northerly  fifteen  (15)  feet  at  right  angles  from  of^east^  iine^  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (dis-  13th  Avenue- 
continued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th)  Ave- 
nue (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth 
(59th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  exterior  line  of  lands  under  water 
granted  by  the  people  of  the  State  of  New  York  to  the 
Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  September  28th,  1871. 

PARCEL  No.  8. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  12th  Avenue  w. 
Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; streets”  W’  72nd 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth 
(59th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


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Reservation 

City. 


by  Reserving,  however,  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a via- 
duct and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  over  and 
above  that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  8 hereinafter  de- 
scribed, said  viaduct  and  supporting  structures  to  be  so 
constructed  and  maintained  as  to  permit  of  the  standard 
side  and  overhead  clearances  of  the  Railroad  Company, 
and  also  to  be  so  constructed  and  maintained  as  not  to 
interfere  with  the  safe  and  proper  operation,  mainte- 
nance and  management  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad 
Company  thereunder: 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  distant  northerly 
fifteen  (15)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  said  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discon- 
tinued and  closed),  and  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seven- 
tieth (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed);  and  running 
thence  northerly  along  said  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (32th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  thirty-four  (34)  feet ; 
thence  easterly  parallel  with  the  said  southerly  line  of 
West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
one  hundred  (1 00)  feet  to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (1 2th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed);  thence  southerly  along 
the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed)  thirty-four  (34)  feet  to  a point  distant  northerly 
fifteen  (15)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 
and  thence  westerly  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  one 
hundred  (100)  feet  to  the  point  or  place  of  beginning: 
Together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company  to  attach 
to  said  viaduct  and  supporting  structures  thereof,  such 
pipes  and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be 
reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of 
its  railroad. 


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PARCEL  No.  9. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifty-  w.  59th  street. 
Ninth  (59th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) : 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth 
(59th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


PARCEL  No.  10. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  60th  street. 
Sixtieth  (60th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  W est  Sixtieth  (60th) 

Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  11. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w 61st  street. 
Sixty-First  (61st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-First 
(61st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  12. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-  w.  62nd  Street. 
Second  (62nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Second 
(62nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


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PARCEL  No.  13. 

w.  63rd  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Third  (63rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Third 
(63rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  14. 

w.  64th  Street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Fourth  (64th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Fourth 
(64th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  15. 

w.  65th  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Sixty-Fifth  (65th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 
Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  West  End  Avenue; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Fifth 
(65th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  16. 

w.  66th  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty- 
Sixth  (66th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1916; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty- Sixth 
(66th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


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PARCEL  No.  17. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-  w_  67th  street> 
Seventh  (67th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916 ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Seventh 
(67th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed). 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  18. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sixty-  w.  68th  Street. 
Eighth  (68th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Eighth 
(68th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 


PARCEL  No.  19. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  69th  street. 
Sixty-Ninth  (69th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916 ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sixty-Ninth 
(69tli)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 

Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  20. 

Bounded  northerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  Southerly  15  feet 
distant  northerly  fifteen  (15)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  west'of  line  ^feet 
southerly  line  of  West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discon-  east  of  bulkhead, 
tinned  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 


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W.  70  th  Street 
east  of  line  40  feet 
east  of  bulkhead. 


Reservation  by 
City. 


easterly  forty  (40)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  the  Bulkhead 
Line,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventieth 
(70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Thirteenth  (13th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  2i. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Easterly,  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1910; 

Southerly,  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventieth 
(70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly,  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
easterly,  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  Bulk- 
head Line,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April  25th, 
1890;  ' 

Reserving,  however,  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a via- 
duct and  supporting  structures  thereof  over  and  across 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  21,  hereinafter  described, 
said  viaduct  and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be 
so  constructed  and  maintained  as  to  permit  of  the  stand- 
ard side  and  overhead  clearances  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany, and  also  to  be  so  constructed  and  maintained  as 
not  to  interfere  with  the  safe  and  proper  maintenance, 
management  and  operation  of  the  railroad  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  thereunder: 

Beginning  at  a point  formed  by  the  intersection  of  a 
line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  northerly  fifteen 
(15)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed),  with 
the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany; 


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And  running  thence  westerly,  along  said  line  drawn 
parallel  as  above  described,  five  hundred  and  thirty  (530) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  fifty-five 
(55)  feet,  measured  along  said  parallel  line  from  the 
Bulkhead  Line,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April 
25th,  1890; 

Thence  northwesterly,  along  a straight  line,  drawn 
from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described  course 
to  a point  in  said  Bulkhead  Line  distant  northerly  forty- 
six  (46)  feet,  as  measured  along  said  Bulkhead  Line  from 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventieth  (70)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed),  seventeen  (17)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  easterly  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  Bulkhead  Line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  Bulkhead  Line 
and  distant  easterly,  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  there- 
from, thirty-seven  (37)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed),  five 
(5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northeasterly, 
thirty-four  (34)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  course 
hereinabove  secondly  described; 

Thence  southeasterly,  parallel  with  the  course  herein- 
above secondly  described  twenty-two  and  five-tenths 
(22.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly 
forty-nine  (49)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  southerly 
line  of  West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Seventieth  (70th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed), 
five  hundred  and  eighteen  (518)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company  as 
shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916; 

Thence  southerly,  along  said  easterly  exterior  line, 


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W.  71st  Street. 


W.  129th  to  Man- 
hattan Streets. 


Triangular  par- 
cel W.  130th  Street 
to  12th  Avenue. 


thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  be- 
ginning. 

Together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company  to 
attach  to  said  viaduct  and  supporting  structures  thereof, 
such  pipes  and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as 
may  be  reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  oper- 
ation of  its  railroad. 

PARCEL  No.  22. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Seventy-First  (71st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-First 
(71st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

And  westerly  by  a line  parallel  with  and  distant  easterly 
forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  Bulkhead  Line, 
approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  April  25th,  1890; 

PARCEL  No.  23. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Manhattan 
Street ; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  west- 
erly one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  24. 

Bounded  easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and 
distant  westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirtieth  (130th)  Street; 

And  northerly  and  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 


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. PARCEL  No.  25. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Second  (132nd)  Street; 

Easterly  and  southerly  by  the  westerly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  the  Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916 ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and  five  tenths 
(257.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  26. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Third  (133rd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Second  (132nd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and  five-tenths 
(257.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  27. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  with  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Third 
(133rd)  Street; 

And  running  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Third  (133rd)  Street, 
forty  (40)  feet  to  a point  distant  westerly  sixty  (60)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  northerly  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and  sixty-six  (666) 
feet  and  eight  (8)  inches,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 


Triangular  parcel 
south  of  W.  132nd 
Street. 


W.  132nd  to  W. 
133rd  Streets. 


W.  133rd  to  W. 
137th  Streets  in 
12th  Avenue. 


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Reservations 

City. 


northerly  one  hundred  and  seven  (107)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-Fifth  (135tli)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  to  a point  distant  easterly  forty- 
four  (44)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented 
center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a straight  line,  thirty-six  (36)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  forty-two  (42) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  356  + 20  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  six  thousand,  eight  hundred  and 
seventy-five  (6875)  feet,  three  hundred  and  forty-five 
(345)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly  exte- 
rior line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  distant 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  monu- 
mented center  line,  measured  at  station  359  + 65  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  along  said  exterior  line,  parallel 
with  said  center  line,  four  hundred  and  ninety  (490)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Fifth  (135tli)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  nine  and  fifty-four  hundredths  (9.54)  feet, 
to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  five  hundred  and  fifty-nine  (559)  feet  and 
eight  (8)  inches,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  the  Riverside  Drive 
Viaduct  over  and  above  said  Parcel  No.  27,  as  said  via- 


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duct  is  now  constructed  and  maintained,  or  at  any  time 
hereafter  may  be  lawfully  constructed  and  maintained 
thereover. 

Reserving  also  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required 
for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or 
roof  and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as 
a part  of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in 
subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  27  hereinafter  described, 
said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  structures  to  be 
constructed  as  provided  in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of 
Article  Three  of  said  agreement,  and  to  be  and  remain 
the  property  of  the  City,  and  all  the  provisions  of 
said  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  to  be  applicable  to  said  covering  or  roof  and 
supporting  structures  under  the  easement  herein  re- 
served ; together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company 
to  attach  to  said  covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in 
the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes 
and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be 
reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of 
its  railroad: 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  with  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth 
(135th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  running  thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street 
(discontinued  and.  closed)  twenty  (20)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line  two  hundred  and 
forty-three  (243)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  forty-two  (42)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad 
Company,  measured  at  station  356  + 20  of  said  center 
line; 


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Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  six  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
seventy-five  (6875)  feet,  three  hundred  and  forty-five 
(345)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly 
exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  dis- 
tant thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
monmnented  center  line,  measured  at  station  359  + 65  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  said  exterior  line,  parallel 
with  said  center  line  four  hundred  and  ninety  (490)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Sfreet  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  nine  and  fifty-four  hundredths  (9.54)  feet 
to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue;  . 

Thence  southerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12tli)  Avenue,  one  hundred  (100)  feet  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  28. 

w.  134th  Street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fourth  (134th)  Street  (discontin- 
ued and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Fourth  (134th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  four  hundred  and  ninety-eight 
(498)  feet  from  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fourth  (134th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  distant  westerly  four  hundred 


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and  twenty-four  and  five  tenths  (424.5)  feet  from 
the  northeasterly  corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-Fourth  (134th)  Street  and  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fourth  (134th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  distant  westerly  four  hundred  and 
twenty-one  and  five  tenths  (421.5)  feet  from  the  south- 
easterly corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fourth 
(134th)  Street  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  29. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue;  and  running  thence  westerly 
along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  to  a point 
distant  westerly  four  hundred  and  twenty-four  and  five 
tenths  (424.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  parallel  with  the  said  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  and  distant  westerly  four 
hundred  and  twenty-four  and  five  tenths  (424.5)  feet 
therefrom  five  hundred  and  fifty-nine  (559)  feet  and 
eight  (8)  inches,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  twenty-four  (24)  feet  and  six  (6) 
inches  to  lands  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southerly  along  lands  of  the  Railroad  Company 
forty  (40)  feet  and  seven  (7)  inches,  more  or  less; 

Thence  easterly  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh  (137th)  Street  (discon- 


W.  135th  to  w. 
137th  Streets  west 
of  12th  Avenue, 
and  railroad  right 
of  way. 


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Reservation 

City. 


tinued  and  closed)  along  lands  of  the  Railroad  Company 
two  hundred  and  five  (205)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  southerly  along-  lands  conveyed  to  the  New 
York  State  Realty  and  Terminal  Company  by  the  New 
York  Investment  and  Improvement  Company,  by  deed 
dated  May  2Gth,  1911,  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  Regis- 
ter of  the  County  of  New  York  in  section  7,  Liber  153  of 
deeds,  page  44,  one  hundred  and  nine  (109)  feet,  more  or 
less; 

Thence  easterly  along  lands  conveyed  as  aforesaid 
one  hundred  and  five  (105)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southerly  parallel  with  the  said  monumented 
center  line  of  the  Railroad  Company  and  distant  thirty- 
three  (33)  feet  westerly  therefrom  two  hundred  and 
eighty-six  (286)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  fifty-seven  (57)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  iof 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  and  distant  one  hundred  (100) 
feet  therefrom  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  place  of  beginning; 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof 
and  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as  a part  of 
the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in  subdi- 
vision D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agreement 
between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over  that 
portion  of  the  said  Parcel  No.  29  hereinafter  described, 


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said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  structures  to  be 
constructed  as  provided  in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of 
Article  Three  of  said  agreement  and  to  be  and  remain  the 
property  of  the  City,  and  all  the  provisions  of  said 
subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  to  be  applicable  to  said  covering  or  roof  and 
supporting  structures  under  the  easement  herein  re- 
served; together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company 
to  attach  to  said  covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in 
the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes 
and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be  rea- 
sonably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its 
railroad : 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue;  and  running  thence  westerly, 
along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  ninety- 
five  (95)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at  right  angles 
from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said 
Railroad  Company ; 

Thence  northerly  parallel  with  said  center  line,  and 
distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches 
at  right  angles  therefrom  three  hundred  and  ninety-three 
(393)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  lands  conveyed  to  the  New 
York  State  Realty  and  Terminal  Company  as  aforesaid; 

Thence  easterly  along  lands  conveyed  as  aforesaid 
twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
center  line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southerly  parallel  with  said  center  line  and  dis- 
tant thirty-three  (33)  feet  westerly  therefrom,  tvTo  hun- 
dred and  eighty-six  (286)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  north- 


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W.  137th  t 
141st  Streets 
of  line  300 
west  of  12th 
nue. 


erly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135tli)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  .fifty-seven  (57)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  and  distant  one  hundred  (100) 
feet  therefrom  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  place  of  begimiing. 

PARCEL  No.  30. 

j w.  Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
Ave-  and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  westerly  three  hun- 
dred (300)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  west- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed)  one  thousand  and  thirty-nine  (1039)  feet  and  four 
(4)  inches,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discontin- 
ued and  closed)  twenty-four  and  five  tenths  (24.5)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  nine 
hundred  and  thirty-two  (932)  feet  and  six  (6)  inches, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  line  distant  northerly 
ninety-three  (93)  feet  from  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  (140tli)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  measured  along  said  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  a curved  line  tangent  to  the 
last  above  described  course,  convex  to  the  west,  drawn 
with  a radius  of  four  hundred  and  seventy-eight  (478) 


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feet,  more  or  less,  one  hundred  and  three  (103)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  distant  westerly  three  hundred  and  fourteen 
(314)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  fourteen  (14)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  31. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  w-  137th  street. 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  present  westerly  exterior  line  of  lands 
of  the  Railroad  Company; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for  Reservation  by 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof  Clty‘ 
and  supporting  structures  thereof  to  he  used  as  a part 
of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in  subdi- 
vision D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  31  easterly  of  a line 
parallel  with  and  distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet 
and  four  (4)  inches  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented 
center  line  of  the  railroad ; said  covering  or  roof  and  sup- 
porting structures  shall  be  constructed  as  provided  in 
said  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  and  shall  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the 


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W.  137th  to  W. 
144th  Streets  east 
of  west  line  of 
12th  Avenue. 


City,  and  all  the  provisions  of  said  subdivision  D 
of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agreement  shall  be 
applicable  to  the  said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting 
structures  under  the  easement  herein  reserved;  together 
with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company  to  attach  to  said 
covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in  the  walls  of  the 
supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes  and  conductors 
and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be  reasonably  required 
in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its  railroad. 

PARCEL  No.  32. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  said  point  be- 
ing distant  northerly  three  and  four  hundredths  (3.04) 
feet  from  the  northwesterly  corner  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Seventh  (137th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed),  and  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  running  thence  northerly,  along  the  westerly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one 
thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty-seven  (1637)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  southerly  one  hundred  and  nine- 
teen (119)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  southwesterly 
corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed),  and  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southeasterly,  seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  two  hundred  and  one  (201)  feet, 
at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line 
of  the  railroad  measured  at  station  376  + 17.5  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northeasterly,  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the 
northwest,  drawn  with  a radius  of  seven  hundred  and 
seventeen  (717)  feet,  one  hundred  and  four  (104)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 


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sixty-eight  and  five  tenths  (168.5)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line;  measured  at  station  377  + 14  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northeasterly,  by  a straight  line 
eighty-six  (86)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly, one  hundred  and  thirty-seven  (137)  feet,  more  or 
less,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line  measured  at 
station  377  + 95  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northeasterly,  by  a curved  line  con- 
vex to  the  southeast,  drawn  with  a radius  of  six  hundred 
and  thirty-seven  (637)  feet,  twenty -two  (22)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  distant  northerly 
seven  (7)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  northeasterly  cor- 
ner of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed), 
and  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  seven  (7)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144tli)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  ninety-seven  (97)  feet,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fourth  (144th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  easterly 
line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 


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Surrender  of  sur- 
face occupancy,  by 
Railroad  Company. 


Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one  hundred 
and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches,  to  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third 
(143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  sixty-nine  (69)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  sixty-two  (62)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one  hundred 
and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches,  to  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second 
(142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  forty-one  (41)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixtv- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 


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and  closed),  tliirty-four  and  forty-two  hundredths  (34.42) 
feet,  to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (dis- 
continued and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  one  hundred 
and  ninety-nine  (199)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches  to  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-First 
(141st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  twelve  (12)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 
tant westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty- First  (141st)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  six  (6)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) : 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  fifty-six  and 
sixty-seven  hundredths  (56.67)  feet,  to  a point  distant 
westerly,  thirty-three  (33)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  six  hundred  and  sixty- five  (665)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  thirty-three  (33)  feet,  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line ; 


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"Reservation 

City. 


Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  (198)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

by  Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof 
and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as  a part 
of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in  sub- 
division D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  32  easterly  of  a line 
parallel  with  and  distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet 
and  four  (4)  inches  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented 
center  line  of  the  railroad;  said  covering  or  roof  and 
supporting  structures  shall  be  constructed  as  provided 
in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  and  shall  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the 
City,  and  all  the  provisions  of  said  subdivision  D of 
Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agreement  shall  be 
applicable  to  the  said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting 
structures  under  the  easement  herein  reserved;  together 
with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company  to  attach  to  said 
covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in  the  walls  of  the 
supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes  and  conductors 
and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be  reasonably  required 
in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its  railroad. 


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PARCEL  No.  33. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontin- 
ued and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Eighth  (138th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required 
for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or 
roof  and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as 
a part  of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in 
subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany over  that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  33  easterly 
of  a line  parallel  with  and  distant  westerly  fifty-eight 
(58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at  right  angles  from  the 
monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad;  said  cover- 
ing or  roof  and  supporting  structures  shall  be  constructed 
as  provided  in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three 
of  said  agreement  and  shall  be  and  remain  the  property 
of  the  city,  and  all  the  provisions  of  said  subdivision 
D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agreement 
shall  be  applicable  to  the  said  covering  or  roof  and  sup- 
porting structures  under  the  easement  herein  reserved; 
together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company  to  at- 
tach to  said  covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in  the 
walls  of  the  supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes  and 
conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be  reason- 
ably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its 
railroad. 


W.  138th  Street 
west  of  12th  Ave- 
nue. 


Reservation  by 
City. 


W.  139th  Street 
west  of  12th  Ave- 
nue. 


W.  140th  Street 
west  of  12th  Ave- 
nue and  strip 
southerly  of  W. 
140th  Street. 


W.  140th  to  W. 
141st  Streets  west 
of  line  100  feet 
west  of  12th  Ave- 
nue. 


PARCEL  No.  34. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Ninth  (139th)  Street  (discontin- 
ued and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Ninth  (139th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discon- 
tinued and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  35. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fortieth  (140th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
southerly  twenty-eight  (28)  feet  and  eleven  (11)  inches 
at  right  angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fortieth  (140th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  (discontin- 
ued and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  36. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  one 


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hundred  (100)  feet  westerly  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Fortieth  (140th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  three  hundred  (300)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (dis- 
continued and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  37. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued  and 
dosed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  four  hundred  and  seventy-eight 
(478)  feet,  said  curved  line  intersecting  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  three  hundred  and 
fourteen  (314)  feet,  more  or  less,  westerly  of  the  west- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and 
closed)  and  intersecting  the  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-first  (141st)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed)  two  hundred  and  ninety-six  and  five 
tenths  (296.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  westerly  of  the  westerly 
line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  38. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued 

and  closed) ; 


W.  141st  Street 
west  of  12th  Ave- 
nue. 


W.  142nd  Street 
west  of  12th  Ave 
nue. 


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Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  southwestwardly  from  a 
point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
distant  westerly  two  hundred  and  one  and  five  tenths 
(201.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  northwesterly  corner 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Becond  (142nd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed)  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second  (142nd)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed)  distant  westerly  two  hundred 
and  twenty-three  (223)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  south- 
westerly corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Second 
(142nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  39. 

w.  143rd  street  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
?st  of  i_th  A\e-  jjun(jre(j  an(j  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue 
(discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  southwestwardly  from  a 
point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed) 
distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  seven  (107)  feet,  more 
or  less,  from  the  northwesterly  corner  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  West  One  Hun- 


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dred  and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Forty-Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight 
and  five  tenths  (128.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  south- 
westerly -corner  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed)  and  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third 
(143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed). 

PARCEL  No.  40. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  ; 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  ninety-four  and  thirty-three  hundredths 
(94.33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center 
line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof 
and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as  a 
part  of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in 
subdivision  1)  of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  40,  hereinafter  described, 
said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  structures  to  be 
constructed  as  provided  in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of 
Article  Three  of  said  agreement  and  to  be  and  remain 
the  property  of  the  City,  and  all  the  provisions  of 
said  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  to  be  applicable  to  the  said  covering  or  roof 


W.  145tli  Street 


Reservation  by 
City. 


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ancl  supporting  structures  under  the  easement  herein  re- 
served; together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company 
to  attach  to  said  covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and 
in  the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  thereof  such 
pipes  and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may 
he  reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  operation 
of  its  railroad : 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  easterly  thirty-three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center 
line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  or  more,  to  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  ninety-two  (92)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  thirty- 
five  (35)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
380  + 54  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145tli)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  ninety-four  and  thirty-three  hundredths 
(94.33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  twenty- 
five  (25)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly 
twenty-five  (25)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  last  above 
described  course ; 

Thence  easterly,  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued 


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and  closed)  thirty-live  (35)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  lifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  forty 
(40)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Fifth  (145th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  ninety-two  (92)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  41. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed),  said  point  being  at  a corner  or  angle  in  the  westerly 
exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company  and  distant 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  radially  from  the  monumented  center 
line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed)  sixty-three  and  five-tenths  (63.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  a curved  line  convex  to  the 
east,  drawn  northwardly  with  a radius  of  four  thousand 
two  hundred  and  ninety-seven  (4297)  feet,  from  a point 
distant  westerly  ninety-four  and  thirty-three  hundredths 
(94.33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  381  + 63  of  said  center  line,  to  a point  dis- 
tant westerly  ninety-seven  (97)  feet  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  384  + 00  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  curved  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  eighty-two  (82)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  384  + 00  of  said  center 

line ; 


W.  146th  to  W. 
158th  Streets  west 
of  railroad  right  of 
way  including  W. 
155th  Street. 


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Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to 
the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  sixty  five  (‘2865)  feet,  six  hundred  and 
twenty-one  (621)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  three  and  five  tenths  (103.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  radially,  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  390  + 45  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to 
the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  four  thousand  two 
hundred  and  ninety-seven  (4297)  feet,  five  hundred  and 
sixty-eight  (568)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  ninety-three  and  sixty-six  hundredths  (93.66) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  396  + 28  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  three  hundred  and  two  (302)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  399  + 30  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line  eleven 
(11)  feet ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line  seventy- 
five  (75)  feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line  eleven 
(1 1)  feet ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
hundred  and  twenty-seven  (127)  feet; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  two  hundred  and  forty 
(240)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  sixty- 
four  and  sixteen  hundredths  (64.16)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  403+70  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  three  hundred  and  seventy-seven  (377)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  407  -+  47  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line,  five 
(6)  feet ; 


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Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  eight 
hundred  and  seventeen  (817)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
in  a line  drawn  westwardly  at  right  angles  to  said  center 
line,  from  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth 
(158th)  Street  with  the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of 
the  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  line,  drawn  westwardly  as 
last  above  described,  twenty-six  and  two  tenths  (26.2) 
feet,  to  the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Railroad 
Company ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line, 
seven  hundred  and  twenty-three  (723)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
Fifth  (155th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Fifth  (155th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  sixty-eight  (68)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  thirty- 
nine  (39)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northwesterly 
line  of  Riverside  Drive ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  line  of  said  Drive  to  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Fifth 
(155th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Fifth  (155th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the 
westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Company, 
distant  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line,  five 
hundred  and  forty-one  (541)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Third 
(153rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 


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Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Third  (153rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  twenty  and  forty-six  hundredths  (20.46)  feet, 
to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued 
and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  two  hundred  and 
nine  and  eiglity-six  hundredths  (209.86)  feet,  to  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Second  (152nd) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  nineteen  (19)  feet,  to  a point  in  the  westerly 
exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Company,  distant 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerlj*  along  said  westerly  exterior  line,  sixty 
two  (62)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street  (discon- 
tinued and  closed) ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Second  (152nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  seventeen  and  thirty-seven  hundredths 
(17.37)  feet,  to  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed),  two  hundred 
and  nine  and  eighty-six  hundredths  (209.86)  feet,  to  the 
northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-First 
(151st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed); 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  eleven  and  eighty-three  hundredths  (11.83) 
feet,  to  a point  in  the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of 
said  Railroad  Company,  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 


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Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line,  one 
thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty  (1380)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning ; 

Reserving  to  the  City  the  overhead  rights  required  for  ^.Reservation  by 
the  construction  and  maintenance  of  a covering  or  roof 
and  the  supporting  structures  thereof  to  be  used  as  a 
part  of  the  park  system  of  the  City,  as  provided  for  in 
subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  over 
that  portion  of  said  Parcel  No.  41  hereinafter  described; 
said  covering  or  roof  and  supporting  structures  shall  be 
constructed  as  provided  in  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of 
Article  Three  of  said  agreement  and  shall  be  and  remain 
the  property  of  the  City,  and  all  the  provisions  of 
said  subdivision  D of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  said 
agreement  shall  be  applicable  to  the  said  covering  or  roof 
and  supporting  structures  under  the  easement  herein  re- 
served; together  with  the  right  to  the  Railroad  Company 
to  attach  to  said  covering  or  roof,  and  to  carry  by  and  in 
the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  thereof  such  pipes 
and  conductors  and  signalling  appliances  as  may  be  rea- 
sonably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  its 
railroad : 

Beginning  at  the  southeasterly  corner  of  the  premises 
above  described ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Sixth  (146th)  Street 
(discontinued  and  closed),  twenty-nine  (29)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east  drawn 
northerly  with  a radius  of  four  thousand  two  hundred 
and  ninety-seven  (4297)  feet,  from  a point  distant 
westerly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet  and  four  (4)  inches  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line  measured  at  station 
381  -f  63  of  said  center  line,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
sixty- two  (62)  feet  and  ten  (10)  inches  radially  from 


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said  center  line  measured  at  station  384  + 00  of  said 
center  line ; 

Tlience  northerly  along  said  line,  drawn  northwardly 
as  above  described,  eighty  (80)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  said  station  384  + 00  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  said  center  line,  sixteen 
(16)  feet  and  six  (6)  inches; 

Thence  northerly  along  a curved  line,  convex  to  the 
east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  (3000)  feet, 
to  a point  distant  westerly  forty-five  (45)  feet  and  four 
(4)  inches  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  390  -f-  45  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east  drawn  northerly  from  the  termination  of  the 
last  above  described  course  with  a radius  of  four  thou- 
sand (4000)  feet  to  a point  distant  westerly  forty-four 
(44)  feet  and  two  (2)  inches  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line  measured  at  station  396  + 28  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  parallel  to  said  center 
line  to  a point  opposite  station  397  + 00  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
forty-nine  and  five  tenths  (49.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
westerly  line  of  Parcel  No.  41  above  described; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  said  Par- 
cel No.  41  sixteen  (16)  feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
forty-nine  and  five  tenths  (49.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed),  dis- 
tant westerly  forty-four  (44)  feet  and  two  (2)  inches 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 


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Tlience  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-First  (151st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  eleven  (11)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 
tant westerly  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  one 
thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty  (1380)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  42. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
Eighth  (158th)  Street  with  the  easterly  exterior  line  of 
'land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  said  point  being  distant 
thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  inonu- 
mented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said  Railroad  Com- 
pany; 

And  running  thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said 
center  line,  ninety-seven  and  two  tenths  (97.2)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  along  a line,  drawn  northwardly 
from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described  course, 
to  a point  distant  westerly  sixty-nine  and  five  tenths 
(69.5)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  419  + 84  ± of  said  center  line,  three  hundred  and 
sixty-two  (362)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  present  shore 
or  high  water  line  of  the  Hudson  or  North  River; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  shore  or  high  water  line,  to 
a point  in  the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Rail- 
road Company  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  radially  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line, 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  hundred  and  sixty  (260) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  former  northerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth  (158th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  former  northerly  line  of  West 


W.  158th  Street 
to  station  419  -j-  84 
including  W.  158th 
Street. 


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One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth  (108tli)  Street,  sixty-eight 
(08)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Slope  rights.  Together  with  the  right  to  fill  in  with  earth,  rock 

and  other  material,  lands  under  water  of  the  City, 
adjoining  the  above  described  premises,  on  the  west,  to  such 
extent  as  may  be  necessary  to  support  the  tracks  and 
roadbed  of  the  railroad  to  be  constructed  by  the  Rail- 
road Company  upon  the  above  described  premises,  until 
such  time  as  said  adjoining  lands  of  the  City  may  be  filled  in. 

PARCEL  No.  43. 

Station  426  + 10  Beginning  at  a point  in  the  westerly  exterior  line  of 
to  station  451 -f  89.  }an(j  0f  the  Railroad  Company,  distant  thirty- three  (88) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the 
railroad  of  said  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  station 
451  + 89  of  said  center  line  ; 

And  running  thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  ex- 
terior line  two  thousand  one  hundred  and  sixty  (2160) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-Fifth  (165th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed) ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-Fifth  (165th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  seventy -four  (74)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 
tant easterly  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  cen- 
ter line ; 

Thence  southerly  parallel  with  said  center  line  thirteen 
(13)  feet ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  twenty-eight  and  five  tenths 
(28.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty- 
three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-Fifth  (165th)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed) ; 


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Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-Fifth  (165th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed)  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in 
said  westerly  exterior  line  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  exterior  line,  parallel  with 
said  center  line,  two  hundred  and  seventy-live  (275)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  shore  line  or  high  water  mark  of  the 
Hudson  or  North  River; 

Thence  southwesterly  along  said  shore  line  or  high  water 
mark  of  said  river,  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  (123) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  a curved  line,  convex  to  the 
west,  drawn  northwardly,  with  a radius  of  two  thousand, 
two  hundred  and  ninety-two  (2292)  feet,  from  a point 
distant  westerly  sixty-nine  and  five  tenths  (69.5)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  419 
+ 84  of  said  center  line,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
seventy-six  (76)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  426  -f-  10  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  curved  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  thirty  (30)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  opposite  said  station  426  + 10  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  the  last  above  described 
course  one  and  five  tenths  (1.5)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  one  hundred  and 
seventy-three  (3173)  feet,  more  or  less,  one  hundred  and 
sixty  (160)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
seventy  (70)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  427  + 68  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  five  hundred  and  forty 
(540)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
fifty-six  and  five  tenths  (56.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  433  + 07  of  said 
center  line; 


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Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  sixty-five  (2865)  feet,  more  or  less,  one 
thousand  and  thirty-four  (1034)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  fifty-four  and  five  tenths  (54.5) 
feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 

443  + 63  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  three  hundred  and 
twelve  (312)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly thirty-five.  (35)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  446  + 80  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  sixty-five  (2965)  feet,  more  or  less,  con- 
centric with  said  center  line,  three  hundred  and  seventy 
(370)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  450  -f 
50.11  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant thirty-five  (35)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  isixty-three  and  eighty-nine  hundredths  (63.89)  feet; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line  nine 
(9)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sev- 
enty-five (75)  feet; 

And  thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
eleven  (11)  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning; 

Excepting  from  the  above  described  parcel  of  land, 
that  portion  thereof  included  within  a strip  of  land  cross- 
ing the  above  described  parcel  located  at  about  station 

444  + 75  of  the  center  line  of  the  railroad,  and  shown  in 
green  coloring  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916. 

Slope  rights.  Together  with  the  right  to  fill  in  with  earth,  rock  and 
other  material,  lands  under  water  of  the  City  adjoining 
the  above  described  premises,  on  the  west,  to  such  extent 


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as  may  be  necessary  to  support  the  tracks  and  roadbed  of 
the  railroad  to  be  constructed  by  the  Railroad  Company 
upon  the  above  described  premises,  until  such  time  as 
said  adjoining  lands  of  the  City  may  be  filled  in. 

PARCEL  No.  44. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  westerly  exterior  line  of 
land  of  the  Railroad  Company,  distant  thirty- three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of 
the  railroad  of  said  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  sta- 
tion 485  -f  96  of  said  center  line ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said 
center  line,  nine  (9)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  (154) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-six 
(36)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  487  + 49.51  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to 
the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  and 
thirty-six  (3036)  feet,  more  or  less,  concentric  with  said 
center  line,  five  hundred  and  fifty-seven  (557)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  493  + 01  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  parallel  with  and  distant 
thirty-six  (36)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
eight  hundred  and  eighty-eight  and  forty-six  hundredths 
(888.46)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station 
501  + 89.46  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  seven  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  sixty-four  (7964)  feet,  more  or  less,  con- 
centric with  said  center  line,  one  thousand  (1000)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  511  + 94.76  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  parallel  with  and  distant 


Station  485  96 

station  516  50. 


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Slope  rights. 


Station  519  90 

to  station  542  -(-  90. 


thirty-six  (36)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
four  hundred  and  fifty-five  (455)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  shore  line  or  high  water  mark  of  the  Hudson 
or  North  Eiver  opposite  station  516  + 50  ± of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  southeasterly  along  the  shore  line  or  high 
water  mark  of  said  river,  forty  (40)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Com- 
pany; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line, 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  three  thousand  and  fifty 
(3050)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning; 

Together  with  the  right  to  fill  in  with  earth,  rock  and 
other  material,  lands  under  water  of  the  City  westerly 
of  the  above  described  premises  to  such  extent  as  may  be 
necessary  to  support  the  roadbed  and  tracks  of  the  rail- 
road to  be  constructed  by  the  Railroad  Company  upon 
the  above  described  premises,  until  such  time  as  said 
adjoining  lands  of  the  City  may  be  filled  in. 

PARCEL  No.  45. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  westerly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany, with  the  shore  line  or  high  water  mark  of  the 
Hudson  or  North  River,  said  point  of  beginning  being 
distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  radially  from  the  monu- 
mented  center  line  of  the  railroad  of  said  Railroad  Com- 
pany, measured  at  station  519  + 90  ± of  said  center  line ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  radially  to  said  center 
line,  seven  (7)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  four  hundred  and  forty-nine  (449) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  forty-six 
(46)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  524  + 40.66  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 


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to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  eight  thousand  (8000) 
feet,  more  or  less,  one  thousand  four  hundred  and  nine 
(1409)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
fifty-seven  (57)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  538  + 49.52  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  four  hundred  and  fifty 
(450)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  division  line 
between  land  of  the  City,  and  land  now  or  formerly  of 
Julia  B.  Hinohman  under  grant  dated  May  31st,  1870, 
distant  westerly  sixty-two  (62)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  division  line,  twenty-nine 
(29)  feet,  or  more,  to  the  westerly  exterior  fine  of  land 
of  said  Railroad  Company; 

Thence  southerly  along  said  westerly  exterior  line, 
parallel  with  said  center  line,  two  thousand,  two  hundred 
and  ninety-five  (2295)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of 
beginning ; 

Together  with  the  right  to  fill  in  with  earth,  rock,  and 
other  material,  lands  under  water  of  the  City,  westerly  of 
and  adjoining  the  above  described  premises,  to  such  ex- 
tent as  may  be  necessary  to  support  the  tracks  and  road- 
bed of  the  railroad  to  he  constructed  by  the  Railroad 
Company  upon  the  premises  above  described,  until  such 
time  as  said  adjoining  lands  of  the  City  may  be  filled  in. 

In  respect  of  that  portion  of  the  parcel  of  land  above 
described  between  a line  about  three  hundred  (300)  feet 
southerly  from  the  southerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street  and 
a line  about  fifteen  hundred  (1,500)  feet  southerly  from 
the  southerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street,  in  case  any  portion 
thereof  is  not  used  by  the  Railroad  Company  for  the  pur- 
poses of  making  the  changes  provided  for  in  the  agree- 
ment between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company 
within  the  time  mentioned  in  Section  4 of  Article  Three 
of  the  said  agreement,  then  in  such  case  title  to  such  por- 
tion of  said  parcel  not  so  used  shall,  at  the  option  of  the 


Slope  rights. 


Reconveyance. 


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Bulkhead  line  to 
railroad  right  of 
way  west  of  the 
Hendrick  Hudson 
Bridge. 


Triangular  parcel 
east,  of  Hendrick 
Hudson  Bridge. 


West  of  railroad 
right  of  way  north 
of  Spuyten  Duyvil 
Creek. 


City,  be  granted  and  conveyed  to  the  City  by  the  Rail- 
road Company,  upon  payment  by  the  City  to  the  Railroad 
Company  of  the  same  price  per  square  foot  as  the  Rail- 
road Company  is  paying  the  City  therefor  under  said 
agreement. 

PARCEL  No.  46. 

Bounded  northerly  and  westerly  by  land  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1916; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  the  proposed  Hendrick 
Hudson  Memorial  Bridge  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916; 

And  southerly  by  the  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line  on  the 
northerly  side  of  the  Harlem  River  Ship  Canal. 

PARCEL  No.  47. 

Being  a triangular-shaped  parcel  of  land,  bounded 
northerly  by  land  of  the  Railroad  Company  as  shown  on 
the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916 ; 

Southerly  by  the  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line  on  the  north- 
erly side  of  the  Harlem  River  Ship  Canal; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  the  proposed 
Hendrick  Hudson  Memorial  Bridge  as  shown  on  the 
Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916. 

PARCEL  No.  48. 

Bounded  northerly  by  land  under  water  of  Elizabeth 
J.  Cox  and  others  and  by  land  of  the  Railroad  Company 
at  about  station  594  -f-  55 ; 

Easterly  by  land  of  said  Railroad  Company  as  shown 
on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916 ; 

Southerly  by  the  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line  on  the  north- 
erly side  of  the  Harlem  River  Ship  Canal; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  northwardly  from  a point 
in  said  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line,  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-eight  (128)  feet,  more  or  less,  at  right 
angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 


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of  said  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  station  587  + 

03  ± of  said  center  line,  to  a point  in  the  southerly 
boundary  line  of  land  under  water  of  said  Cox  and  others, 
distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  seventy-seven  (177) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  said  center  line,  measured  along 
said  southerly  boundary  line  of  lands  under  water  of  said 
Cox  and  others. 

Reserving  to  the  City  as  to  Parcel  No.  48  above  de-  Reservation  in- 
scribed all  riparian  and  other  rights  in  and  to  the  lands 
under  water  westerly  thereof,  with  the  right  to  fill  in  and 
otherwise  use  said  lands  under  water  westerly  thereof  as 
to  the  City  may  seem  proper. 


II. 


The  easements  required  for  the  construction,  equip- 
ment, maintenance  and  operation  of  the  railroad  of  the 
Railroad  Company  in,  through  and  upon  all  those  parcels 
of  land  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan,  City  of  New  York, 
bounded  and  described  as  follows: 


Easements  grant 
ed  by  City. 


PARCEL  No.  i. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sev-  w.  72nd  to  w. 
enty-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  said  129th  Streets- 
point  being  distant  easterly  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  monmnented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  two  hundred  and  ninety-three  (293)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  five  hundred  and  seventy-two  (572) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  about  one 
hundred  and  eighty-nine  (189)  feet,  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  191  + 25  of  said 
center  line; 


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Tlience  northerly  and  northeasterly  by  a curved  line 
convex  to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  about  four 
hundred  and  ninety-seven  (497)  feet,  one  hundred  and 
thirty-five  (135)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  fifty-six  (156)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  192  + 
55  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northeasterly  along  a straight  line  drawn  from 
the  termination  of  the  last  above  described  course,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  thirty- three  and  five  tenths  (33.5) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  195  + 58  of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and 
thirty-four  (134)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  193  + 80  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northwesterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight 
line,  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northeasterly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  thirty-six 
(36)  feet; 

Thence  southeasterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight 
line,  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty- 
eight  (28)  feet; 

Thence  northeasterly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn 
northwardly  as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
eight  (158)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  west- 
erly thirty-three  and  five  tenths  (33.5)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  said  station 
195  + 58  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a curved  line,  convex  to  the 
east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  about  eight  hundred  (800) 
feet,  one  hundred  and  ninety-three  (193)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  eleven  (11)  feet,  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  197  + 46  of 
said  center  line ; 


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Thence  northerly,  by  a straight  line,  six  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  (678)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-Ninth  (79th)  Street,  dis- 
tant easterly  eleven  (11)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  Sev- 
enty-Ninth (79th)  Street,  forty-two  and  five  tenths  (42.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-one 
and  five  tenths  (31.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  five  hundred  and 
ninety-nine  (599)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  forty-three  (43)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  210  + 23  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
forty-two  (42)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  twenty-seven  (27) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  210  + 50 
of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  along  a straight  line  two 
hundred  and  fifty-seven  (257)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  eighteen  and  five  tenths  (18.5) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  213  + 07  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  along  a straight  line  one 
hundred  and  sixty-one  (161)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  seven  (7)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  214  + 67  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  along  a straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  from  the  termination  of  the  last 
above  described  course,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
eighteen  (18)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  225  -f-  50  of  said  center  line, 


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five  hundred  and  thirteen  (513)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  opposite  station  219  + 80  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  220  + 16  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet  to  said  straight  line,  drawn  northwardly,  as 
above  described ; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly, as  above  described,  five  hundred  and  thirty- 
four  (534)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  west- 
erly eighteen  (18)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  said  station  225  + 50  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a straight  line  drawn 
northwardly  from  the  termination  of  the  last  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  fourteen  (14)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  228  + 
83  of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  sixty-three  (163) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  227  + 13 
of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirteen  (13) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  parallel  to  said 
straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described, 
seventy  (70)  feet,  to  a point  opposite  station  227  -f-  83  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 


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scribed  course,  thirteen  (13)  feet  to  a point  in  said 
straight  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described  about  one  hundred  (100)  feet 
to  said  point  distant  westerly  fourteen  (14)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  228  + 83  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  and  forty- 
six  (3046)  feet,  three  hundred  and  ninety-four  (394)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly,  fourteen 
(14)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  232  + 75  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  three  hundred  and 
thirty  (330)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
eighteen  (18)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  236  + 04  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-one  (31)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
239  + 66  of  said  center  line,  seventy-seven  (77)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  236  + 80  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  237  + 16  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 

(28)  feet; 


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Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  two  hundred  and  fifty  (250) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  westerly  thirty- 
one  (31)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  239  -f-  66  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thousand 
four  hundred  and  fifty-nine  (11,459)  feet,  two  hundred 
and  sixty  (260)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly thirty-three  and  seven  tenths  (33.7)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  242  + 26  of 
said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand 
six  hundred  and  eighty-two  (5682)  feet,  six  hundred  and 
ninety-one  (691)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  twenty  (20)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line  measured  at  station  249  + 17  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east 
drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty-nine  (11,459)  feet  sixty-eight  (68)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Ninety-Sixth  (96th)  Street,  distant  westerly  nineteen 
(19)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Ninety-Sixth  (96th)  Street,  forty- two  (42)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  sixty-one  (61)  feet, 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a straight  line  four  hundred  and 
seventy-three  (473)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  254  + 59  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line, 
forty- two  (42)  feet; 


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Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  three  and  five 
tenths  (3.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured , at  station  280  + 16  of  said  center  line, 
eight  hundred  and  thirty-three  (833)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  262  + 92  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  thirteen  (13) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  ninety-eight 
(98)  feet; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  fifteen  (15) 

feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  264  + 26  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 

(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn 

northwardly  as  above  described,  one  thousand  five 
hundred  and  fifty-four  (1554)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  279  + 80  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 

(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  wdth  said  straight  line, 
thirty-six  (36)  feet  to  a point  opposite  station  280  + 16 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 


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drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight  (28) 
feet,  to  a point  in  said  straight  line,  drawn  northwardly 
as  above  described; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  one  hundred  and 
sixty-nine  (169)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly four  and  five  tenths  (4.5)  feet  radially  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  281  + 85  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  ten  thousand  (10,000)  feet, 
nine  hundred  and  two  (902)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  four  and  five  tenths  (4.5)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  290  + 87  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  one  hundred  and 
seventy  (170)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly three  and  five  tenths  (3.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  292  -f-  57  of  said 
center  line; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  seven  and  five 
tenths  (7.5)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  295  + 00  of  said  center  line,  twenty- three  (23) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  292  + 80  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight 


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(28)  feet  to  a point  in  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  eighty- 
four  (184)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point,  distant  west- 
erly seven  and  five  tenths  (7.5)  feet,  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  said  station  295  + 00 
of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-four  and  ninety-three  hundreds  (2864.93) 
feet,  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  eleven  and  five  tenths  (11.5)  feet,  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  295  + 90  of 
said  center  line. 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  four  hundred  and 
sixty  (460)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly 
thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  300  + 50  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  twenty-nine  and  sixty-five  hundredths  (5729.65) 
feet,  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  (335)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-nine  (39)  feet,  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
303  + 85  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  westerly  fifty-six  and  five 
tenths  (56.5)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  310  -f-  21  of  said  center  line,  six  hundred 
and  twelve  (612)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite 
station  309  -f  90  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  last  above  described,  twenty-eight 
(28)  feet; 


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Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  fifteen  (15) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  310  + 26  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  northerly  forty  (40)  feet  to  a point  distant 
westerly  thirteen  (13)  feet,  radially  from  the  second  here- 
inafter described  course ; 

Thence  easterly  thirteen  (13)  feet  radially  from  the 
next  hereinafter  described  course ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thousand  four  hun 
dred  and  fifty-nine  and  two  tenths  (11,459.2)  feet,  drawn 
northwardly  from  a point  distant  westerly  fifty-six 
and  five  tenths  (56.5)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line 
measured  at  station  310  + 21  of  said  center  line,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  sixty  and  five  tenths  (60.5)  feet, 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  312  + 
53  of  said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  (175) 
feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  sixty-four  and  ninety-three  hundredths 
(2864.93)  feet,  eighty-one  (81)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  sixty  and  five  tenths  (60.5)  feet, 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  313 
+ 34  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  eleven  thou- 
sand, four  hundred  and  fifty-nine  and  two  tenths 
(11,459.2)  feet,  two  hundred  and  twenty-eight  (228)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  fifty-five 
and  five  tenths  (55.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said 


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center  line,  measured  at  station  315  + 66  of  said  center 
line ; 

Tlience  northerly  by  a straight  line,  five  hundred  and 
sixty-two  (562)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  fifty  and  five  tenths  (50.5)  feet,  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  321  + 28  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  two  hundred 
and  ninety-two  and  one  hundredth  (2292.01)  feet,  two 
hundred  and  thirty-five  (235)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-five  (35)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  323  + 63  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  and  thirty-six  hundredths 
(3125.36)  feet,  two  hundred  and  thirty-nine  (239)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  station  326  + 00  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  northwardly  with  a radius  of  three 
thousand  four  hundred  and  thirty-seven  and  eighty- 
seven  hundredths  (3437.87)  feet,  from  the  termination 
of  the  last  above  described  course,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  thirty-seven  and  five  tenths  (37.5)  feet  radially 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  329  + 37  of 
said  center  line,  one  hundred  and  eighty-two  (182)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  westerly  radially  to  said  curved  line,  drawn  as 
last  above  described,  twenty-eight  (28)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  concentric  with  said  curved  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  328  + 18  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly,  radially  to  said  curved  line,  drawn 


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northwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-eight  (28) 
feet  to  a point  opposite  station  328  + 18  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  northerly,  along  said  curved  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  one  hundred  and  nineteen 
(119)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  easterly 
thirty-seven  and  five  tenths  (37.5)  feet,  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  said  station  329  + 37  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  six  hundred  and 
fifty-eight  (658)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  sixty-nine  (69)  feet,  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  336  -f-  00  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a straight  line,  two  hundred  and 
ten  (210)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th) 
Street,  distant  easterly  thirty-two  (32)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129tli)  street,  one  hundred 
and  fifty-seven  (157)  feet; 

Thence  southerly  two  hundred  and  thirty  (230)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy-eight  (178)  feet,  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  336  -f  00  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  by  a straight  line,  six  hundred  and 
fifty-five  (655)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  east- 
erly one  hundred  and  forty-six  and  five  tenths  (146.5) 
feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
329  + 29  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  three  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  thirty-seven  and  eighty-seven  hundredths 


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(3437.87)  feet,  one  thousand  (1000)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  easterly  forty-one  (41)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  319  + 
05  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  four  hundred  and  fifty-five  (455) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty- 
eight  (38)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  314  + 50  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-four  and  ninety- three  hundredths  (2864.93) 
feet,  three  hundred  and  fifteen  (315)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty-six  and  five  tenths 
(36.5)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  311  + 37  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a straight  line,  six  hundred  and 
seventy-seven  (677)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  fifty-five  and  five  tenths  (55.5)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  304  + 
60  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  fifty  (150)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  dis- 
tant easterly  fifty-four  and  five  tenths  (54.5)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
303  + 10  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  about  five  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  twenty-nine  and  sixty-three  hun- 
dredths (5729.63)  feet,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  (185) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  fifty- 
seven  and  five  tenths  (57.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  301  -f  25  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  fifty  (150)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 


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distant  easterly  sixty-four  (64)  feet,  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  299  + 75  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a straight  line,  three 
hundred  and  thirty-five  (335)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  eighty  and  five  tenths  (80.5)  feet,  at 
right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
296  + 40  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a straight  line,  fifty 
(50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
eiglity-two  and  five  tenths  (82.5)  feet,  radially  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  295  -J-  90  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  sixty-four  and  ninety-three  hun- 
dredths (2864.93)  feet,  eighty-seven  (87)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  eighty-six  and  five 
tenths  (86.5)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  295  + 00  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a straight  line,  fifty 
(50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
eighty-eight  and  five  tenths  (88.5)  feet  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  station  294  -f  50  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a straight  line,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-five  (275)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  ninety  (90)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  291  + 72  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  hy  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  ten  thousand 
(10,000)  feet,  one  thousand  and  seventy- seven  (1077) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  ninety  (90) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  281  -f  00  of  said  center  line ; 


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Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  three 
thousand  and  eighteen  (3018)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  seventy-seven  (77)  feet,  at  right  angles, 
from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  250  + 82  of 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  sixty-five  (165)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  seventy-five  and  seven  tenths  (75.7) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  249  + 17  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to 
the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  seventy-eight  (5778)  feet,  seven  hundred 
(700)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
sixty-two  (62)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  242  + 26  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  sixty-six  (166)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  sixty-one  and  five  tenths  (61.5)  feet 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  240  + 
60  of  >said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  ninety- 
four  (94)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
sixty-two  and  five  tenths  (62.5)  feet,  radially  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  239  + 66  of  said  center 

line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line  threo 
hundred  and  sixty- two  (362)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  seventy-five  and  five  tenths  (75.5)  feet, 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
236  -f-  04  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  three 
hundred  and  twenty-two  (322)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  eighty  and  four  tenths  (80.4)  feet, 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  232  + 
75  of  said  center  line ; 


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Thence  continuing  southerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  fifty-two  (2952)  feet,  three  hundred 
and  eighty-two  (382)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  eighty  (80)  feet  radially  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  228  + 83  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  three 
hundred  and  twenty-four  (324)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  seventy-five  (75)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station  225  + 
50  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
thousand  and  ninety-four  (1094)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  five  tenths 
(100.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  214  + 67  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  sixty  (160)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  fourteen  and  two 
tenths  (114.2)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  213  + 07  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  thousand, 
seven  hundred  and  seventy-eight  (5778)  feet,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty-seven  (257)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  twenty-seven  (127) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  210  + 50  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  sixty-five  (165)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  and 
five  tenths  (128.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  208  + 85  of  said  center 
line; 


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Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  and  eighty-five  (185)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  thirty-one 
and  two  tenths  (131.2)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said 
center  line,  measured  at  station  207  + 00  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
thousand  five  hundred  and  twenty-seven  (1527)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  seventy-one  (71)  feet, 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
191  + 60  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  three 
hundred  and  thirty-two  (332)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  thirty-seven  and  five  tenths  (37.5) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
station  188  + 30  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  sixty-five  (2865)  feet,  one  hundred  and 
seventy  (170)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  east- 
erly thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  station  186  -f  60  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  (148)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

The  easements  herein  granted  in  said  Parcel  No.  1 
between  the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventy-Second 
(72nd)  Street  and  station  336  -f  00  are  to  be  exercised 
below  the  covering  or  roof  provided  for  in  subdivision  B 
of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  the  agreement  between 
the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company;  the  abutments  and 
supports,  including  retaining  walls  of  such  covering  or 
roof,  are  to  be  built  by  the  Railroad  Company  for  and  on 
behalf  of,  and  upon  lands  owned  or  to  be  acquired  by,  the 


Easements  to  be 
exercised  below 
covering  or  roof. 


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Railroad 

ties. 


Railroad 

ties. 


City,  and  the  said  covering  or  roof  and  the  supporting 
structures  are  to  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the  City ; 
facili-  Together  with  the  easements  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  circuit  breaker  houses, 
signal  towers,  battery  houses  and  ventilating  cham- 
bers and  the  inlets  and  outlets  thereof,  as  shown  on 
the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  reasonably  required  in 
connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad  of  the  Rail- 
road Company,  upon  those  portions  of  the  parcel  of 
land1  above  described  upon  which  said  structures  are 
shown  to  be  constructed  upon  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1916;  said  structures,  except  the  ventilating  inlets  and 
outlets  shall  be  below  the  covering  or  roof  above  men- 
tioned and  the  design  for  the  ventilating  inlets  and  out- 
lets shall  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board, 
facili-  Together  also  with  the  easements  required  for  the 
construction  and  maintenance  of  communicating  and 
transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits,  telegraph,  tele- 
phone, lighting,  control  and  power  wires  and  cables, 
lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  appliances,  third 
rails  and  overhead  working  conductors  or  other  appli- 
ances transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and 
negative  connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection 
and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire 
protection  systems,  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  all  of  which  are  to  be  attached 
to  the  covering  or  roof  above  referred  to,  and  carried 
by  and  in  the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  of  such 
covering  or  roof ; all  of  the  facilities  and  appliances 
above  mentioned,  together  with  the  working  conductors, 
signalling  system  and  other  power  and  lighting  circuits 
may  be  connected  as  required  with  the  communicating 
and  transmission  lines ; splicing  chambers  may  be  located 
at  intervals  of  approximately  four  hundred  (400)  feet 


105 


along  the  course  of  the  conduits  carrying  the  transmis- 
sion lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  in  the  walls  of  the 
supporting  structures  of  the  covering  or  roof  above  men- 
tioned, and  ducts  for  the  ventilation  of  said  splicing 
chambers  may  be  carried  to  the  surface  of  the  ground 
above  the  same  at  suitable  locations. 

Together  also  with  the  easement  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  the  drainage  pipes,  in  ac- 
cordance with  plans  to  be  approved  by  the  Board,  reason- 
ably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  below  the  surface  of 
the  ground  extending  westerly  from  the  parcel  of  land 
above  described  to  the  waters  of  the  Hudson  River. 

PARCEL  No.  2. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  center  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Fifty-Third  (153rd)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  said  point  being  distant  easterly  thirty- three 
(33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  monumented  center 
line  of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Third  (153rd)  Street  (dis- 
continued and  closed)  eight  (8)  feet,  or  more,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  twenty-five  (25)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  two 
hundred  and  ninety-seven  (297)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  opposite  station  405  + 07.26  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  one  hundred  and  eight 
(108)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty- 
three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  406  + 15.26  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  four 
hundred  and  eight  (408)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

The  easements  herein  granted  are  to  be  exercised  below 


Drainage. 


W.  153rd  Street 
to  station  406  -(-  15. 


106 


W.  158th 


Railroad 

tics. 


the  Riverside  Drive  Viaduct  as  the  said  viaduct  is  now 
constructed  and  maintained  or  at  any  time  hereafter  may 
be  lawfully  constructed  and  maintained  thereover. 

PARCEL  No.  3. 

street.  Beginning  at  a point  in  a line  drawn  westwardly,  at 
right  angles  to  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company  from  the  point  formed  'by  the 
intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-Eighth  (158th)  Street  with  the  easterly  ex- 
terior line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Company,  said  point 
of  beginning  being  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  said  line,  drawn 
westwardly  as  above  described,  twenty-six  and  two  tenths 
(26.2)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
two  (62)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  a line,  drawn 
westwardly  at  right  angles  to  said  center  line,  from  the 
point  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth  (158th)  Street  with 
the  easterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  said  Railroad  Com- 
pany; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  line,  drawn  westwardly  as 
last  above  described,  twenty-six  and  two  tenths  (26.2) 
feet; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  said  center  line,  sixty- 
two  (62)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

The  easements  herein  granted  are  to  be  exercised  below 
the  highway  bridge  over  the  tracks  of  the  railroad  at 
West  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-Eighth  (158tli)  Street, 
facili-  Together  as  to  said  Parcel  No.  3 with  the  easements  re- 
quired for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  communi- 
cating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits,  tele- 
graph, telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires  and 


107 


cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  appli- 
ances, third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company)  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection  and 
wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire  protec- 
tion systems  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  to  be  attached  to  the  highway 
bridge  above  mentioned  to  be  constructed  over  the  parcel 
of  land  above  described,  and  to  be  attached  to  and  carried 
by  or  in  the  supporting  structures  of  such  highway 
bridge. 

PARCEL  No.  4. 

Beginning  at  a point  distant  westerly  twenty-seven  Port  Washington 
and  six  hundred  and  sixty-five  thousandths  (27.665)  feet, 
radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  measured  at  station  462  + 00  of 
said  center  line ; 

And  running  thence  northerly  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  thousand  three  hundred  (1300)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  station  475  +00  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  said  center  line  fifty- 
five  and  thirty- three  hundredths  (55.33)  feet  to  a point 
distant  easterly  twenty-seven  and  six  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  thousandths  (27.665)  feet  radially  from  said  center 
line; 

Thence  southerly  along  a line,  parallel  with  said  center 
line,  one  thousand  three  hundred  (1300)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  opposite  said  station  462  + 00  of  said 
center  line ; 

And  thence  westerly  radially  to  said  center  line 
fifty-five  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (55.33)  feet  to  the 

place  of  beginning. 


108 


Easements  to 
be  exercised  be- 
low covering  or 
roof. 


Kailroad  facili- 
ties. 


Tlie  easements  herein  granted  are  to  be  exercised  be- 
low the  covering  or  roof  provided  for  in  subdivision  H 
of  Section  3 of  Article  Three  of  the  said  agreement  be- 
tween the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company,  the  abut- 
ments and  supports,  including  retaining  walls  of  such 
covering  or  roof,  to  be  built  by  the  Railroad  Company  for 
and  on  behalf  of,  and  upon  lands  owned  or  to  be  acquired 
by,  the  City,  and  the  said  covering  or  roof  and  the  sup- 
porting structures  thereof  to  be  and  remain  the  prop- 
erty of  the  City. 

Together  also  with  the  easements  required  for  the 
construction  and  maintenance  of  communicating  and 
transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits,  telegraph,  tele- 
phone, lighting,  control  and  power  wires  and  cables, 
lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  appliances,  third 
rails  and  overhead  working  conductors  or  other  appli- 
ances transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and 
negative  connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection 
and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire 
protection  systems  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  all  of  which  are  to  be  attached 
to  the  covering  or  roof  above  referred  to,  and  carried  by 
and  in  the  walls  of  the  supporting  structures  of  such 
covering  or  roof ; all  of  the  facilities  and1  appliances 
above  mentioned,  together  with  the  working  conductors, 
signalling  system  and  other  power  and  lighting  circuits 
may  be  connected  as  required  with  the  communicating 
and  transmission  lines ; -splicing  chambers  may  be  located 
at  intervals  of  approximately  four  hundred  (400)  feet 
along  the  course  of  the  conduits  carrying  the  transmis- 
sion lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  in  the  walls  of  the 
supporting  structures  of  the  covering  or  roof  above  men- 
tioned, and  ducts  for  the  ventilation  of  said  splicing  cham- 
bers may  be  carried  to  the  surface  of  the  ground  above 
the  same  at  suitable  locations. 


109 


Together  also  with  the  easement  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  the  drainage  pipes,  in  ac- 
cordance with  plans  to  be  approved  by  the  Board,  reason- 
ably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  below  the  surface  of 
the  ground  extending  westerly  from  the  parcel  of  land 
above  described  to  the  waters  of  the  Hudson  River. 

PARCEL  No.  5. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman 
Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly  fifty  (50)  feet 
radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company; 

And  running  thence  northerly  three  hundred  and 
thirteen  (313)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  center 
line  at  station  550  + 25  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  prolongation  of  the  last 
above  described  course  one  hundred  and  thirty-two  (132) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a corner  or  angle  opposite  station 
551  +55  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  above  described 
course,  six  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (6.33)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  along  a straight  line  drawn  north- 
wardly from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course,  to  a point  distant  easterly  one  hundred  and 
twenty-eight  (128)  feet  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  station  573  + 60  of  said  center  line,  one 
thousand  two  hundred  and  forty  (1240)  feet; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  said  straight  line, 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  thirty-six  (36) 
feet; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  said  straight  line, 


Drainage. 


Inwood  Hill. 


110 


drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  tbirty-six  (36) 
feet  to  a point  in  said  straight  line,  drawn  northwardly  as 
above  described; 

Thence  northerly  along  said  straight  line,  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described,  nine  hundred  and  one 
(901)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  easterly 
one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  (128)  feet,  radially  from 
said  center  line,  measured  at  said  station  573  + 60  of  said 
center  line ; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  nine  hundred 
(2900)  feet,  three  hundred  and  sixty-eight  (368)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  one  hundred  and 
three  (103)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured 
at  station  577  + 35  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  westerly  radially  to  the  last  above  described 
course,  eleven  (11)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a straight  line,  seventy-five  (75) 
feet  to  a point  distant  easterly  eighty-eight  and  five 
tenths  (88.5)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  meas- 
ured at  station  578  + 10  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  radially  to  the  next  hereinafter  de- 
scribed course,  eleven  (11)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  two  thousand  nine  hundred 
(2900)  feet,  eighty-seven  (87)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  ninety-five  and  five  tenths  (95.5) 
feet  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
579  + 02  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  by  a straight  line,  fifty- 
nine  (59)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  Pier  and 
Bulkhead  Line  on  the  southerly  side  of  the  Harlem  River 
Ship  Canal,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  January 
22nd,  1915,  said  point  being  distant  easterly  ninety- 
two  and  five  tenths  (92.5)  feet,  radially  from  said  center 


Ill 


line,  measured  at  about  station  579  + 60  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line,  one 
hundred  and  nine  (109)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  easterly  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and 
five  tenths  (157.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center 
line,  measured  at  about  station  580  + 52  of  said  center 
line; 

Thence  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one  hundred  and 
forty-two  (142)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
easterly  one  hundred  and  sixty-six  and  seventeen 
hundredths  (166.17)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line, 
measured  at  said  station  579  + 02  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  about  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  thirty  (2830)  feet,  five  hundred  and  eighteen  (518) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  one 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  sixty-seven  hundredths 
(198.67)  feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at 
said  station  573  + 60  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line  parallel 
to  the  straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  hereinbefore 
described,  nine  hundred  and  one  (901)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  opposite  station  564  + 43  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course,  thirty-six  (36)  feet; 

Thence  southerly  at  right  angles  to  the  above  described 
course,  thirty-six  (36)  feet; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  the  above  described 
course,  thirty-six  (36)  feet; 

Thence  southerly  by  a straight  line  parallel  to  the 
straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  hereinbefore  de- 
scribed one  thousand  two  hundred  and  forty  (1240)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  opposite  station  551  + 45  of  said 
center  line ; 


112 


Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course,  six  and  thirty- three  hundredths  (6.33) 
feet ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  course  second  here- 
inabove described,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  (185) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  north  wall  on  the  land 
of  the  New  York  Magdalen  Home,  distant  easterly,  seven- 
ty-six and  five  tenths  (76.5)  feet,  radially  from  said 
center  line  measured  at  station  549  + 62  of  said  center 
line ; 

Thence  westerly,  along  said  north  wall,  three  and  five 
tenths  (3.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  westerly  corner  of 
said  north  wall,  distant  easterly  seventy-three  (73)  feet, 
radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  said  station 
549  + 62  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  westerly  wall  on  the  land 
of  said  New  York  Magdalen  Home,  twenty  (20)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distaut  easterly,  seventy-three  (73) 
feet,  radially  from  said  center  line,  measured  at  station 
549  + 42  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  southerly  two  hundred  and  seven  (207)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  fifty-one 
and  thirteen  hundredths  (51.13)  feet  at  right  angles 
to  the  northerly  prolongation  of  the  tangent  in  said  center 
line,  extending  next  southerly  to  Dyckman  Street,  meas- 
ured opposite  station  547  + 40.15  of  said  center  line; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  eight  thousand  two  hundred 
and  one  (8201)  feet,  seventy-four  (74)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street, 
distant  easterly  forty-seven  (47)  feet,  radially  from  said 
center  line ; 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Dyck- 
man Street,  one  hundred  and  eight  (108)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 


113 


The  easements  herein  granted  in  and  to  Parcel  No. 
5 above  described  between  station  551  -f  50  and  station 
577  + 00  are  to  be  exercised  below  the  covering  or  roof 
provided  for  in  subdivision  A of  Section  4 of  Article 
Three  of  the  agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Rail- 
road Company;  the  abutments  and  supports,  including 
retaining  walls  of  such  covering  or  roof,  are  to  be  built 
by  the  Railroad  Company  for  and  on  behalf  of,  and  upon 
lands  owned  or  to  be  acquired  by,  the  City,  and  the  said 
covering  or  roof  and  the  supporting  structures  thereof 
are  to  be  and  remain  the  property  of  the  City ; 

Together  with  the  easements  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  signal  tower,  battery  house 
and  ventilating  chambers  and  the  inlets  and  outlets 
thereof,  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  rea- 
sonably required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  upon  those  portions 
of  the  parcel  of  land  above  described  upon  which  said 
structures  are  shown  to  be  constructed  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916;  said  structures,  except  the  ventilating 
inlets  and  outlets  and  the  signal  tower  and  battery  house 
shall  be  below  the  covering  or  roof  above  mentioned  and 
the  design  for  the  ventilating  inlets  and  outlets  shall  be 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board. 

Together  also  with  the  easements  required  for  the 
construction  and  maintenance  of  communicating  and 
transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits,  telegraph,  tele- 
phone, lighting,  control  and  power  wires  and  cables, 
lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  appliances,  third 
rails  and  overhead  working  conductors  or  other  appli- 
ances transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and 
negative  connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protec- 
tion and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm 
and  fire  protection  systems,  of  the  Railroad  Company, 


Easements  to 
be  exercised  be- 
low covering  or 
roof. 


Railroad  facilities. 


Railroad  facilities. 


114 


Drainage. 


Supplemental  i 
strument. 


reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of 
the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  all  of  which  are 
to  be  attached  to  the  covering  or  roof  above  referred  te, 
and  carried  by  and  in  the  walls  of  the  supporting  struc- 
tures of  such  covering  or  roof;  all  of  the  facilities  and 
appliances  above  mentioned,  together  with  the  working 
conductors,  signalling  system  and  other  power  and  light- 
ing circuits  may  be  connected  as  required  with  the  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines;  splicing  chambers 
may  be  located  at  intervals  of  approximately  four  hun- 
dred (400)  feet  along  the  course  of  the  conduits  carrying 
the  transmission  lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  in  the 
walls  of  the  supporting  structures  of  the  covering  or  roof 
above  mentioned,  and  ducts  for  the  ventilation  of  said 
splicing  chambers  may  be  carried  to  the  surface  of  the 
ground  above  the  same  at  suitable  locations. 

Together  also  with  the  easement  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  drainage  pipes,  in  accord- 
ance with  plans  to  be  approved  by  the  Board,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  below  the  surface  of  the  ground 
extending  westerly  from  the  parcel  of  land  above  de- 
scribed to  the  waters  of  the  Hudson  River. 

In  respect  of  the  portion  of  Parcel  No.  5 above  de- 
scribed, title  to  which  shall  not  be  vested  in  the  City  at 
the  time  of  the  execution  and  delivery  of  this  Indenture, 
the  City  shall  immediately  upon  the  delivery  hereof  take 
steps  to  secure  the  vesting  of  the  title  thereof  in  the 
City,  and  upon  the  title  thereof  becoming  vested  in  the 
City  execute  a supplemental  instrument  in  writing  con- 
veying to  the  Railroad  Company  said  easements  herein 
described  in  and  to  such  portions  thereof  as  shall  not  be 
vested  in  the  City  at  the  time  of  the  execution  and  de- 
livery of  this  Indenture. 


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PARCEL  No.  6. 

Beginning  at  the  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  southwesterly  exterior  line  of  land  of  the  Railroad 
Company,  with  the  southeasterly  line  of  the  proposed 
Hendrick  Hudson  Memorial  Bridge  as  shown  on  the 
Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916; 

And  running  thence  northwesterly  along  said  south- 
westerly exterior  line,  fourteen  (14)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a corner  or  angle  in  said  exterior  line,  distant  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-eight  (128)  feet,  more  or  less,  at  right 
angles  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  formerly  the  railroad  of  the 
Spuyten  Duyvil  and  Port  Morris  Railroad  Company, 
measured  at  about  station  585  -f-  60  of  said  center  line ; 

Thence  continuing  northwesterly  along  said  southwest- 
erly exterior  line,  seventy  (70)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
northwesterly  line  of  said  proposed  bridge ; 

Thence  southwesterly,  along  the  northwesterly  line  of 
said  proposed  bridge,  thirty-seven  (37)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  Pier  and  Bulkhead  Line  on  the  northerly  side 
of  the  Harlem  River  Ship  Canal; 

Thence  southeasterly  along  said  Pier  and  Bulkhead 
Line,  eighty-one  (81)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  south- 
easterly line  of  said  proposed  bridge; 

And  thence  northeasterly  along  the  southeasterly  line 
of  said  proposed  bridge,  six  (6)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

The  easements  herein  granted  will  be  exercised  below 
the  Hendrick  Hudson  Memorial  Bridge  when  constructed. 

m. 

The  rights  and  easements  required  for  the  construc- 
tion and  maintenance  of  the  track,  shown  on  the  said 
Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  and  the  operation  of  trains  and 
cars  thereon,  and  for  the  construction  and  use  of  drive- 


Hendriclc  Hudson 
Memorial  Bridge. 


Easements  to 
bo  exercised  be- 
low bridge. 


Surface  rights 
and  easements 
granted  by  City 
in  marginal  wav 
W.  125th  to  W. 
141st  Streets. 


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ways  and  for  the  storage  of  nonperishable  material  and 
for  the  construction  of  facilities  for  handling  same,  and 
for  the  construction  of  platforms  and  one  story  buildings 
for  watchmen  and  yard  offices,  along,  across  and 
upon  the  surface  of  all  those  two  parcels  of  land  in  the 
Borough  of  Manhattan,  City  of  New  York,  bounded  and 
described  as  follows: 

PARCEL  No.  i. 

Beginning  at  a point  distant  northerly  sixty  (60)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hun- 
dred and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th)  Street  (discontinued  and 
closed),  said  point  of  beginning  being  also  distant  west- 
erly three  hundred  and  forty-eight  and  five  tenths  (348.5) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth  (135th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  seventy-six  (76)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  one  thousand  two  hundred  and 
twenty-six  (1226)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northerly  and  northeasterly  by  a curved  line, 
convex  to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  four  hun- 
dred and  seventy-eight  (478)  feet,  tangent  to  the  last 
above  described  course,  one  hundred  and  sixty-nine  (169) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  of  tangent  in  a line  drawn 
parallel  with  and  distant  northwesterly  twenty-four  (24) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  another  line  drawn  northeast- 
wardly from  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Forty-First  (141st)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed)  distant  westerly  two  hundred  and  ninety-six 
and  five  tenths  (296.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  north- 
westerly corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-First 
(141st)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth 


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(12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  to  a point  in 
the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-Third 
(143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  distant  westerly 
one  hundred  and  seven  (107)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the 
northwesterly  corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
Third  (143rd)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  northeasterly  along  said  line,  drawn  parallel  as 
above  described,  two  hundred  and  nineteen  (219)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  five  hundred  and  two  (502) 
feet,  tangent  to  the  last  above  described  course,  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-nine  (169)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  of 
tangent  in  a line,  drawn- parallel  with  and  distant  west- 
erly three  hundred  and  forty-eight  and  five  tenths  (348.5) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  and  distant  westerly 
three  hundred  and  forty-eight  and  five  tenths  (348.5)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue,  one  thousand,  four  hundred  and  thirty-two 
(1432)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  2. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Ninth  (139th)  Street  (discontinued 
and  closed),  distant  westerly  three  hundred  and  forty- 
eight  and  five  tenths  (348.5)  feet  from  the  northwesterly 
corner  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Ninth  (139th) 
Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

And  running  thence  northeasterly  seventy-one  and  five 
tenths  (71.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  north- 
erly sixty-six  and  five  tenths  (66.5)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 


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Overhead  rights 
for  viaduct  granted 
by  City. 


West  Street  and 
King  Street. 


Ninth  (139th)  Street  (discontinued  and  closed)  and  dis- 
tant westerly  three  hundred  and  twenty-four  and  five 
tenths  (324.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed) ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  fifty- 
nine  and  five  tenths  (59.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  northwesterly  twenty  (20)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  northeasterly  prolongation  of  the  first  above 
described  course; 

Thence  southwesterly,  parallel  with  the  first  above  de- 
scribed course,  seventy-one  and  five  tenths  (71.5)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  three  hundred 
and  forty-eight  and  five  tenths  (348.5)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (dis- 
continued and  closed) ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  (discontinued  and  closed)  fifty- 
nine  and  five  tenths  (59.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

IV. 

The  overhead  rights  required  for  the  construction, 
equipment,  maintenance  and  operation  of  the  railroad  of 
the  Railroad  Company  upon  an  elevated  viaduct  with  the 
necessary  supporting  structures  thereof,  and  of  the  clear- 
ances and  grades  shown  upon  the  said  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916,  upon,  along  and  across  all  those  fifty-three  par- 
cels of  land  hereinafter  described : 

PARCEL  No.  i. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  easterly  line  of  West  Street  with  the  northerly  line 
of  Canal  Street; 

And  running  thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  the 
easterly  line  of  West  Street  twenty-seven  (27)  feet; 


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Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  West 
Street,  one  thousand  and  twenty-two  (1022)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  northerly  eighty  (80)  feet  from 
the  westerly  prolongation  of  the  northerly  line  of  King 
Street ; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  easterly  line  of 
West  Street,  twenty-seven  (27)  feet  to  said  easterly  line; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  West 
Street,  eighty  (80)  feet  to  the  northerly  line  of  King 
Street ; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  King 
Street,  one  hundred  and  fifty- five  (155)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  ninety-five  (95)  feet,  more 
or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
northerly  line  of  King  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Washington  Street; 

Thence  southerly,  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  King  Street,  distant 
westerly  eighty  (80)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  King 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  King 
Street,  one  hundred  and  sixty-four  (164)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  easterly  line  of  West  Street; 

And  thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  West 
Street,  eight  hundred  and  seventy-seven  (877)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

Together  as  to  said  Parcel  No.  1 with  the  rights  re- 
quired for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  subways 
as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916  for  the  carry- 
ing of  steam,  water,  air,  refrigerating  and  other  pipes, 
and  power  and  other  cables  under  the  surface  of  the 
ground  of  that  portion  of  Parcel  No.  1 above  described 
included  within  the  lines  of  King  Street. 


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W.  Houston  Street. 


Clarkson  Street. 


PARCEL  No.  2. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street,  said  point  of  beginning  being  distant 
westerly  ninety  (90)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  comer 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington 
Street ; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty-five  (65)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street  distant  westerly  ninety-two  and  eight 
tenths  (92.8)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Houston 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street,  eighty  (80)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northeasterly,  seventy-one  and  five  tenths  (71.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street  distant  westerly  fifty  (50)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  place  of  beginning; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Houston  Street  fifty  (50)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  3. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Clarkson 
Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 
five  (105)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by 
the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  Clarkson  Street 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty-five  (65)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Clarkson 
Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  one  (101)  feet, 
more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  southerly  line  of  Clarkson  Street  with  the  westerly 
fine  of  Washington  Street; 


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Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  Clarkson 
Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  sixty-five  (65)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Clarkson  Street,  distant 
westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet  from  the  place  of  be- 
ginning; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Clark- 
son Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  to  the  place  of  be- 
ginning. 

PARCEL  No.  4. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Leroy 
Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 
twenty-one  (121)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  Leroy 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

And  running  thence  southerly  sixty-eight  (68)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Leroy 
Street,  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  sixteen  and  five 
tenths  (116.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  Leroy  Street 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  Leroy 
Street  thirty-four  (34)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  sixty-eight  (68)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Leroy  Street,  distant 
westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet  from  the  place  of  be- 
ginning; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Leroy 
Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  5. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Morton 
Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 
twenty-three  (123)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  Mor- 
ton Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 


Leroy  Street. 


Morton  Street. 


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Barrow  Street. 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty -five  (65)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Morton 
Street,  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  twenty-three 
(123)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  Morton  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  Morton 
Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  sixty-five  (65)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Morton  Street,  distant 
westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  from  the  place  of  be- 
ginning; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Morton 
Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  6. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Barrow 
Street  said  point  being  distant  westerly  ninety  (90)  feet, 
more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  northerly  line  of  Barrow  Street,  with  the  westerly 
line  of  Washington  Street; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty-six  (66)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Barrow 
Street,  distant  westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
southerly  line  of  Barrow  Street,  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  Barrow 
Street,  thirty-three  and  five  tenths  (33.5)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  first  above  described  course ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  above  de- 
scribed course,  sixty-six  (66)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
northerly  line  of  Barrow  Street; 

And  thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  Bar- 
row  Street,  thirty-three  and  five  tenths  (33.5)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

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PARCEL  No.  7. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Chris- 
topher Street,  distant  westerly  thirty  (30)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
northerly  line  of  Christopher  Street,  with  the  westerly 
line  of  Washington  Street; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  one  hundred  and  thir- 
teen (113)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly 
line  of  Christopher  Street,  distant  westerly  fifty-six  (56) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  Christopher  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  Chris- 
topher Street,  thirty-nine  (39)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point,  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  southerly  prolongation  of  the  first  above 
described  course; 

Thence  northerly,  one  hundred  and  twelve  (112)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Chris- 
topher Street,  distant  westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  first  above  described  course; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  Chris- 
topher Street,  forty-one  (41)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  8. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Tenth  (10th)  Street,  with  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

And  running  thence  southerly  fifty-two  (52)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Tenth  (10th)  Street  with  the  west- 
erly line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Tenth  (10th)  Street,  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 


Christopher 

Street. 


W.  10th  Street. 


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Charles  Street. 


Charles  Lane. 


Perry  Street. 


a point  distant  westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  northerly  fifty- two  (52)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  Tenth  (10th)  Street, 
distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Tenth 
(10th)  Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  9. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Charles 
Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Charles  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line,  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  io. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Charles 
Lane; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Sfreet; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Charles  Lane; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  ii. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Perry 
Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Perry  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 


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PARCEL  No.  12. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Eleventh  (11th)  S'treet; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Eleventh 
(11th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  13. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Bank 
Street ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Bank  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  fifty-four  (54)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  14. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Bethune 
Street ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Bethune  Street ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  dis- 
tant westerly  forty  (40)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  15. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twelfth  (12tli)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twelfth 
(12th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty- three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 


w.  llth  Street. 


Bank  Street. 


Bethune  Street. 


W.  12th  Street 


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Jane  Street. 


Horatio  Street. 


Gansevoort  Street, 
Gansevoort  Square, 
and  Little  W.  12th 
Street. 


PARCEL  No.  1 6. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Jane 
Street ; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Jane  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  17. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Horatio 
Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Horatio  Street ; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street. 

PARCEL  No.  18. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Ganse- 
voort  Street,  said  point  being  distant  westerly,  sis  (6) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  westerly  line  of  Washington 
Street,  measured  along  the  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort 
Street ; 

And  running  thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex 
to  the  east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  hundred  and 
ninety-two  (592)  feet,  fifty-nine  (59)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  a straight  line,  drawn  northwardly  from  a 
point  in  the  northerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  distant 
westerly  sixteen  and  five  tenths  (16.5)  feet  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Washington  Street,  measured  along  the 
northerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  to  a point  in  the 
southerly  line  of  Little  West  Twelfth  (12tli)  Street,  dis- 
tant westerly  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  and  five 
tenths  (128.5)  feet  from  the  westerly  line  of  Washington 
Street,  measured  along  the  southerly  line  of  Little  West 
Twelfth  (12th)  Street; 


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Thence  continuing  northerly,  along  said  straight  line 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  two  hundred  and 
forty-one  (241)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  by  a curved  line  convex 
to  the  west,  drawn  with  a radius  of  five  hundred  and 
seventy-four  (574)  feet,  one  hundred  and  thirteen  (113) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Little 
West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street,  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred and  thirteen  (113)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  west- 
erly line  of  Washington  Street,  measured  along  the  south- 
erly line  of  Little  West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street; 

Thence  continuing  northerly,  by  a straight  line,  sixty- 
six  (66)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly 
line  of  Little  West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street,  distant  west- 
erly, one  hundred  and  twenty-five  (125)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  westerly  line  of  Washington  Street,  meas- 
ured along  the  northerly  line  of  Little  West  Twelfth 
(12th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  Little 
West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street,  sixty  (60)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  by  a straight  line  sixty-eight  (68) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  Little 
West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street,  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred sixty-nine  (169)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  west- 
erly line  of  Washington  Street,  measured  along  the 
southerly  line  of  Little  West  Twelfth  (12th)  Street; 

Thence  continuing  southerly  by  a straight  line,  one 
hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  west- 
erly, thirty-six  (36)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  the  said 
straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  parallel  with  the  said 
straight  line  drawn  northwardly  as  above  described,  two 
hundred  and  ninety  and  five  tenths  (290.5)  feet,  more  or 
less; 

Thence  continuing  southerly,  by  a curved  line,  concen- 
tric with  and  distant  thirty-six  (36)  feet  radially  from 


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Gansevoort  Street 
and  West  Street. 


the  first  described  course,  fifty-two  (52)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street ; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  Ganse- 
voort Street,  thirty-six  (36)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  19. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  tbe  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort 
Street,  distant  westerly,  eighty-four  (84)  feet  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line 
of  Gansevoort  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Washing- 
ton Street; 

Thence  westerly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the  north,  drawn 
with  a radius  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-six  (156)  feet, 
eighty-one  (81)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  of  tangent  in 
a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  northerly,  twenty 
(20)  feet,  at  right  angles,  from  the  southerly  line  of 
Gansevoort  Street ; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of 
Gansevoort  Street,  ninety-seven  (97)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the  south- 
west, drawn  with  a radius  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-six 
(136)  feet,  two  hundred  and  twenty-four  (224)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  of  tangent  in  a line  drawn  parallel  with, 
and  distant  easterly,  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  at  right  angles 
from  the  westerly  line  of  West  Street; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
West  Street,  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  (285)  feet; 

Thence  westerly,  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course,  twenty  (20)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
West  Street,  and  distant  easterly,  fifteen  (]5)  feet  at 
right  angles  therefrom,  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  (285) 
feet; 

Thence  southeasterly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the  south- 
west, drawn  with  a radius  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-six 
(156)  feet,  one  hundred  and  seventy-three  (173)  feet, 


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more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly,  twenty-one  and 
five  tenths  (21.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  southerly 
line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said 
southerly  line  distant  easterly,  thirty-one  (31)  feet,  from 
the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line 
of  Gansevoort  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  West 
Street ; 

Thence  westerly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the  south,  drawn 
with  a radius  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-one  (221)  feet, 
thirty-three  (33)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
northerly  twenty-eight  (28)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  prolongation  of  the  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort 
Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  prolongation,  one  and 
five  tenths  (1.5)  feet  westerly  and  at  right  angles  from 
the  easterly  line  of  West  Street; 

Thence  continuing  westerly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the 
north,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  hundred  and  forty-one 
(241)  feet,  seventy-four  (74)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  southerly,  ten  (10)  feet  at  right  angles,  from  the 
northerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  measured  at  a point 
distant  westerly,  seven  (7)  feet,  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  Gansevoort 
Street  and  the  westerly  line  of  West  Street; 

Thence  continuing  westerly,  parallel  with  the  north- 
erly line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  four  hundred  and  thirteen 
(413)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  at  right  angles  to  the  last  above  de- 
scribed course,  twenty  (20)  feet; 

Thence  easterly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of 
Gansevoort  Street,  four  hundred  and  thirteen  (413)  feet; 

Thence  continuing  easterly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the 
north,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
one  (221)  feet,  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  northerly,  nine  (9)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  westerly  prolongation  of  the  southerly  line  of  Ganse- 
voort Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  prolongation 


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Surrender. 


W.  13th  Street. 


W.  14th  Street. 


eight  (8)  feet  westerly  and  at  right  angles  from  the  east- 
erly line  of  West  Street; 

Thence  continuing  easterly,  by  a curve,  convex  to  the 
south,  drawn  with  a radius  of  two  hundred  and  forty-one 
(241)  feet,  sixty-six  (66)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in 
the  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street,  distant  easterly, 
fifty-seven  (57)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  Gansevoort  Street  with 
the  easterly  line  of  West  Street ; 

Thence  continuing  easterly,  along  the  southerly  line  of 
Gansevoort  Street,  two  hundred  and  twenty-seven  (227) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

The  overhead  rights  in  that  portion  of  Parcel  No.  19 
above  described  west  of  the  easterly  line  of  West  Street 
are  to  be  surrendered  to  the  City  upon  demand  of  the 
Board  as  provided  in  Subdivision  A,  of  Section  1,  of 
Article  Three,  of  the  agreement  between  the  Board  and 
the  Railroad  Company. 

PARCEL  No.  20. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirteenth  (13tli)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  east- 
erly one  hundred  and  forty-four  (144)  feet  and  six  (6) 
inches,  more  or  less,  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line 
of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue. 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirteenth 
(13th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
easterly  ninety-one  (91)  feet  and  six  (6)  inches,  more  or 
less,  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  2i. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fourteenth  (14th)  Street,  said  point  being  distant  east- 
erly seventy-seven  (77)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner 


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formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fourteenth  (14th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  northerly  one  hundred  and  five 
(105)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Fourteenth  (14th)  Street,  distant  easterly  forty- 
six  (46)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fourteenth 
(14th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Ave- 
nue; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Four- 
teenth (14tli)  Street,  fifty-two  (52)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  distant  easterly  fifty  (50)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  first  above  described  course ; 

Thence  southerly  one  hundred  and  five  (105)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fourteenth 
(14th)  Street,  distant  fifty-five  (55)  feet  from  the  point 
of  beginning; 

And  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fourteenth  (14th)  Street,  fifty-five  (55)  feet,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  22. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventeenth  (17th)  Street, 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10tli)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southeasterly  forty-one  (41)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  twenty  (20)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line  distant 
southerly  thirty-seven  (37)  feet  from  said  corner; 

Thence  continuing  southeasterly  sixty-five  (65)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point,  distant  easterly  thirty-seven  and 
five  tenths  (37.5)  feet,  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly 
line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said 
westerly  line  distant  southerly  ninety-nine  (99)  feet  from 
said  corner; 


W.  15th  Street 
and  10th  Avenue. 


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Thence  southeasterly  seventy-one  (71)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point,  distant  easterly  sixty-five  and  five  tenths 
(65.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line, 
distant  southerly  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  (165)  feet 
from  said  corner ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  sixty-seven  (67)  feet; 

Thence  southeasterly  seventy-five  (75)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Ave- 
nue, distant  southerly  fifty-four  (54)  feet,  more  or  less, 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  Sixteenth  (16th)  Street  with  the  easterly 
line  of  Tenth  (lOtli)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  (153)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifteenth  (15th)  Street  with 
the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southeasterly  sixty-three  (63)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fifteenth 
(15tli)  Street,  distant  easterly  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Fifteenth  (15tli)  Street  with  the 
easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fifteenth  (15tli)  Street,  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
said  corner; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  eighty-six  and  five  tenths  (86.5)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly  one  hundred  and 
twenty  (120)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Four- 
teenth (14tli)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  northwesterly  thirty-one  (31)  feet,  more  or 


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less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  twenty  (20)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue, 
measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line,  distant  south- 
erly sixty-two  and  five  tenths  (62.5)  feet  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fifteenth  (15tli)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  twenty  (20)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly  fifty-nine  (59)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  easterly  sixty-two  and  five  tenths  (62.5) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line,  distant 
southerly  forty-six  and  five  tenths  (46.5)  feet  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Fifteenth  (15th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  thirty-three  (33)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly,  sixty-six  (66)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  easterly  thirty-four  and  five  tenths 
(34.5)  feet  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Ave- 
nue, measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line,  distant 
northerly  forty-five  (45)  feet  from  said  corner; 

Thence  northwesterly,  thirty-two  (32)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  seventeen  (17)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Ave- 
nue, measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line,  distant 
northerly  seventy-and  five  tenths  (70.5)  feet,  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Fifteenth  (15th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  continuing  northwesterly  eighteen  (18)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  distant  northerly  seventy-five  (75)  feet, 
more  or  less,  from  said  corner ; 


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Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  twenty-eight  (28)  feet  and  six  (6)  inches, 
more  or  less; 

Thence  southeasterly,  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  distant  easterly  eighteen  and  five  tenths  (18.5) 
feet  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue, 
measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line,  distant  north- 
erly ninety-five  (95)  feet  from  said  corner; 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  sixteen  (16)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue,  ninety-two  (92)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly  one  hundred  and  two  (102)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly  seventeen  (17) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  westerly  line, 
distant  northerly  nineteen  (19)  feet  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Sixteenth  (16th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northwesterly  fifty-eight  (58)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue, 
distant  southerly  one  hundred  and  ten  (110)  feet  from 
the  place  of  beginning; 

And  thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ten  (110)  feet  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  23. 

w.  17th  street.  Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Seventeenth  (17tli)  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  Seventeenth  (17th)  Street,  forty-six  (46)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  northerly,  sixty-four  (64)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  Seventeenth 


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(17th)  Street,  distant  westerly  sixty-eight  (68)  feet, 
more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Seventeenth  (17th)  Street, 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Sev- 
enteenth (17th)  Street,  thirty-eight  (38)  feet,  more  or 
less ; 

Thence  southerly,  sixty-seven  (67)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  24. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  18th  street. 
Eighteenth  (18th)  Street,  distant  westerly  seventy  (70) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Eighteenth  ( 18th J 
Street,  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (lOtli)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty-one  (61)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Eighteenth  (18th)  Street,  distant  westerly  sixty-three 
(63)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Eighteenth 
(18th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 

Avenue ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  Eigh- 
teenth (18th)  Street,  thirty-four  and  two  tenths  (34.2) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point,  distant  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  first  described  course ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty-one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  Eighteenth  (18th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Eighteenth  (18th)  Street,  thirty-four  and  two  tenths 
(34.2)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  25. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  W.  19th  Street. 
Nineteenth  (19tli)  Street,  distant  westerly  one  hundred 
(100)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 


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intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Nineteenth 
(19th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue ; 

And  running  thence  southerly  sixty-one  (61)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Nine- 
teenth (19th)  Street,  distant  westerly  ninety-two  (92) 
feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Nineteenth  (19th) 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Nineteenth  (19th)  Street,  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  first  described  course; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty-one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Nineteenth  (19th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Nineteenth  (19tli)  Street,  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  26. 

w.  20th  street.  Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twentieth  (20th)  Street,  said  point  being  distant  west- 
erly one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Twentieth  (20th)  Street,  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twentieth 
(20th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and  four 
(104)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twentieth 
(20tli)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 


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Twentieth  (20tli)  Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point,  distant  thirty-four  (34)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  first  described  course ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Twentieth  (20th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twentieth  (20th)  Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  27. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  2ist  street. 
Twenty- First  (21st)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  at  right 
angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10tli)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty-First 
(21st)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
second  described  course. 

PARCEL  No.  28. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  22nd  street. 
Twenty-Second  (22nd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet,  more  or  less,  at  right 
angles  from  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Sec- 
ond (22nd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  forty-six  (46)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
second  described  course. 


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PARCEL  No.  29. 

w.  23rd  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Third  (23rd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Third 
(23rd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  forty-six  (46)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
second  described  course. 

PARCEL  No.  30. 

w.  24th  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Fourth  (24th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
■westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Fourth  (24th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
second  described  course. 

PARCEL  No.  31. 

w.  25th  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Fifth  (25th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Fifth 
(25th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  thirty-three  (33)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
second  described  course. 


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PARCEL  No.  32. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  26th  street. 
Twenty-Sixth  (26th)  Street,  said  point  being  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  four  and  seven  hundredths 
(104.07)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Sixth  (26th)  Street 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southerly  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Sixth  (26th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 
nine  hundredths  (100.09)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by 
the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Sixth  (26tli)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Sixth  (26th)  Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-four  (34)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  first  described  course; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty  (60)  feet,, more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Twenty-Sixth  (26th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Sixth  (26th)  Street,  thirty-four  (34)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  33. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  27th  street. 
Twenty-Seventh  (27tli)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred and  six  and  thirty-three  hundredths  (106.33)  feet 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  Twenty-Seventh  (27th)  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue  ; 

And  running  thence  southerly  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Seventh  (27th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 


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seven  and  twenty-seven  hundredths  (107.27)  feet  from  the 
comer  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Twenty-Seventh  (27th)  Street  with  the  westerly 
line  of  Tenth  (lOtli)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Seventh  (27th)  Street,  thirty-three  (33)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  thirty-three  (33) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  first  described  course ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Twenty-Seventh  (27tli)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Seventh  (27tli)  Street,  thirty-three  (33)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  34. 

w.  28th  street.  Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Eighth  (28th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hun- 
dred and  two  and  twenty-eight  hundredths  (102.28)  feet 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  Twenty-Eighth  (28tli)  Street  with  the 
westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southerly,  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Eighth  (28th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred  and 
three  and  twenty-two  hundredths  (103.22)  feet  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Twenty-Eighth  (28th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line 
of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Eighth  (28tli)  Street  fifty  (50)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty  (60)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Twenty-Eighth  (28th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Eighth  (28th)  Street,  fifty  (50)  feet  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 


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PARCEL  No.  35. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Ninth  (29th)  Street  distant  westerly  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  (125)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Ninth 
(29th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue ; 

And  running  thence  southerly  sixty-one  (61)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty- 
Ninth  (29th)  Street  distant  westeny  one  hundred  and 
thirteen  (113)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Twenty-Ninth  (29tli) 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Ninth  (29th)  Street  thirty-seven  (37)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  first  described 
course,  sixty-one  (61)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Twenty-Ninth  (29th)  Street; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Twenty-Ninth  (29th)  Street,  thirty-seven  (37)  feet,  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 

Together  as  to  the  parcels  above  described  as  Parcel 
No.  1 to  Parcel  No.  35,  both  inclusive,  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits, 
telegraph,  telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires 
and  cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and 
appliances,  third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company)  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection  and 
the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire  pro- 
tection systems  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  rail- 


W.  29tli  Street. 


Railroad  facilities. 


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Duct  lines. 


10th  Avenue  and 
W.  30th  Street. 


road  of  the  Railroad  Company,  upon  the  overhead  via- 
ducts carrying  the  tracks  of  the  Railroad  Company  over 
the  said  parcels. 

Together  also  as  to  the  parcels  above  described  as  Par- 
cel No.  1 to  Parcel  No.  35,  both  inclusive,  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  the  duct 
line  carrying  the  transmission  lines  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany, below  the  surface  of  the  ground  of  said  parcels  as 
shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  with  the  right  to 
construct,  maintain  and  use  such  manholes  and  splicing 
chambers  as  may  be  required  for  proper  inspection  and 
maintenance  of  said  duct  line,  the  location  of  such  man- 
holes and  splicing  chambers  to  be  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Board. 

PARCEL  No.  36. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  southeasterly,  one  hundred  and 
seventeen  (117)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth 
(30th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth  (10th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  Tenth 
(10th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  two  and  five  tenths 
(102.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly 
ninety-five  (95)  feet  from  the  northeasterly  corner  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue  and  West  Twenty-Ninth  (294h) 
Street; 

Thence  northwesterly,  one  hundred  and  forty-four 
(144)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street  with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northwesterly  fifty-six  (56)  feet,  more  or  less, 


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to  a point,  distant  northerly  twenty-two  (22)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  southerly  line,  distant 
westerly  fifty-one  and  five  tenths  (51.5)  feet  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line 
of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northwesterly,  fifty-one  (51)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point,  distant  northerly  thirty-one  (31)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  southerly  line,  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  one  and  five  tenths  (101.5)  feet 
from  said  corner; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street,  one  hundred  and  forty- two 
and  five  tenths  (142.5)  feet; 

Thence  southerly  at  right  angles  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street,  thirty-one  (31)  feet  to 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirtieth  (30th)  Street,  one  hundred  (100)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly,  twenty-seven  (27)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  distant  southerly  forty-eight  (48)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth 
(30th)  Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  northerly  line, 
distant  westerly  three  hundred  and  sixty-eight  (368)  feet, 
more  or  less,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street 
with  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Thirtieth  (30tli)  Street,  seventy-two  (72)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly  thirty-one  (31)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  southerly  twenty-nine  (29)  feet,  at  right 
angles  from  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street  measured  at  a point  in  said  northerly  line  distant 


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westerly  four  hundred  and  sixty-four  (464)  feet  from 
said  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with  the  westerly 
line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Thirtieth  (30tli)  Street  forty-eight  (48)  feet; 

Thence  southwesterly  thirty-one  (31)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  southerly  forty-eight  (48)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street  measured  at  a point  in  said  northerly  line  distant 
westerly  five  hundred  and  thirty-six  (536)  feet  from  the 
said  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30tli)  Street  with  the  westerly 
line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 
Street  distant  easterly  two  hundred  and  eighty  (280)  feet 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30tli)  Street  with  the  easterly 
line  of  Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  thirty  (30)  feet; 

Thence  northerly  twenty  (20)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  northerly  twelve  (12)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street 
measured  at  a point  in  said  southerly  line  distant  easterl}” 
two  hundred  and  thirty-four  (234)  feet  from  said  comer 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Eleventh 
(11th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  twenty-four  (24)  feet; 

Thence  northwesterly  thirty-one  (31)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  southerly  twenty-nine  (29)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th) 


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Street,  measured  at  a point  in  said  northerly  line  distant 
easterly  one  hundred  and  eighty-six  (186)  feet  from  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street,  one  thousand  and  thirty- 
six  (1036)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  easterly 
fifty  (50)  feet,  measured  parallel  with  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  from  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  at  right  angles  to  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street,  twenty-nine  (29)  feet 
to  said  northerly  line ; 

And  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  sixteen  hundred  and  fifty  (1650) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  37. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-First  (31st)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Eleventh  (lltli)  Ave- 
nue; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth 
(30tli)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (11th) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  38. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-First  (31st)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-First 
(31st)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue. 


llth  Avenue  W. 
30th  to  W.  31st 
Streets. 


W.  31st  Street. 


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llth  Avenue  W. 
31st  to  W.  32nd 
Streets. 


W.  32nd  Street. 


llth  Avenue  W. 
32nd  to  W.  35th 
Streets. 


PARCEL  No.  39. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Second  (32nd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Eleventh  (llth)  Ave- 
nue; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-First 
(31st)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (llth) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  40. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Second  (32nd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Tenth  (10th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Second 
(32nd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  41. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Fifth  (35tli)  Street  with 
the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (llth)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirty-Fifth  (35tli)  Street,  forty-one  (41)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Eleventh  (llth)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and  fifteen  (615) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty- 
Third  (33rd)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Third  (33rd)  Street,  fifty-nine  (59)  feet  to  the 
corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  southerly  line  of 
West  Thirty-Third  (33rd)  Street  with  the  easterly  line 
of  Eleventh  (llth)  Avenue; 


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Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Eleventh 
(11th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  (197)  feet 
and  six  (6)  inches,  to  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty- Second  (32nd) 
Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty- 
Second  (32nd)  Street,  one  hundred  (100)  feet  to  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Second  (32nd)  Street  with  the  westerly  line  of 
Eleventh  (lltli)  Avenue; 

And  thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh 
(11th)  Avenue,  eight  hundred  and  twelve  and  five  tenths 
(812.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 


PARCEL  No.  42. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  w.  33rd  Street 
Thirty-Third  (33rd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (11th)  Ave- 
nue ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Third 
‘(33rd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 

Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  43. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  W.  34tli  Street 
Thirty-Fourth  (34th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (11th  Ave- 
nue ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Fourth 
(34th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 

Avenue. 


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W.  35th  Street. 


W.  36th  Street. 


12th  Avenue  and 
Marginal  Way  be- 
tween W.  30th  and 
W.  37th  Streets. 


PARCEL  No.  44. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty -Fifth  (35th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Eleventh  (11th) 
Avenue ; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Fifth 
(35th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  45. 

Beginning  at  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Sixth  (36th)  Street  with 
the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

And  running  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of 
West  Thirty-Sixth  (36th)  Street  live  hundred  and  ninety- 
two  (592)  feet ; 

Thence  southerly  sixty-six  (66)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Sixth  (36th) 
Street  distant  easterly  six  hundred  and  twenty  (620)  feet 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  Thirty-Sixth  (36th)  Street  with  the 
easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thir- 
ty-Sixth (36th)  Street,  six  hundred  and  twenty  (620)  feet 
to  said  corner ; 

And  thence  northerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

PARCEL  No.  46. 

Beginning  at  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  said  point  being  distant  northerly  twenty 
(20)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
northerly  line  of  West  Thirtieth  (30th)  Street  with  the 
easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue ; 


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And  running  thence  northwesterly  two  hundred  and  one 
(201)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  one 
hundred  and  twenty-two  (122)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  measured  at  a 
point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  northerly  one  hundred 
and  eighty  (180)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  said  corner; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  eight  hundred  and  ninety  (890) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  westerly  prolongation 
of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Fourth  (84th)  Street ; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  prolongation,  twenty-two 
(22)  feet  to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  (197)  feet  and 
six  (6)  inches  to  a point  in  the  westerly  prolongation  of 
the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-fifth  (35th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  said  prolongation,  twenty-two 
(22)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet  to  a point  in  the 
westerly  prolongation  of  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Fifth  (35th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  prolongation,  twenty-two 
(22)  feet  to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  (197)  feet 
and  six  (6)  inches  to  a point  in  the  westerly  prolongation 
of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Sixth  (36th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  said  prolongation,  twenty-two 
(22  feet) ; 

Thence  northerly  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet  to  a point  in  the 
westerly  prolongation  of  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Sixth  (36th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  prolongation,  twenty-two 
(22)  feet  to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 


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Railroad  facilities. 


Railroad  facilities. 


Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenne,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  (197)  feet 
and  six  (6)  inches  to  a point  in  the  westerly  prolongation 
of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street ; 

Thence  easterly  along  said  prolongation,  one  hundred 
(100)  feet  to  the  southeasterly  corner  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  and  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12tli)  Avenue,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  and  five  tenths  (1762.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

Together  as  to  the  parcels  above  described  as  Parcel 
No.  36  to  Parcel  No.  46,  both  inclusive,  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits, 
telegraph,  telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires 
and  cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and 
appliances,  third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company),  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection  and 
the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire 
protection  systems  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  upon  the  overhead  viaducts 
carrying  the  tracks  of  the  Railroad  Company  over  the 
said  parcels  of  land  above  mentioned. 

Together  also  as  to  said  Parcels  above  described  as 
Parcel  No.  36  to  Parcel  No.  46,  both  inclusive,  with 
the  rights  required  for  the  construction  and  mainte- 
nance of  the  duct  lines  carrying  the  transmission  lines 
of  the  Railroad  Company  below  the  surface  of  the 
ground  of  the  said  parcels  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916,  with  the  right  to  construct,  maintain  and 


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use  such  manholes  and  splicing  chambers  along  the  said 
duct  lines  as  may  be  required  for  proper  inspection  and 
maintenance  of  said  duct  lines,  the  location  of  such -man- 
holes and  splicing  chambers  to  be  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Board. 

Together  also  as  to  said  parcels  above  described  as  Par- 
cel No.  36  to  Parcel  No.  46,  both  inclusive,  with  the 
rights  required  for  the  construction  below  the  surface 
of  the  ground  of  drainage  pipes,  in  accordance  with  plans 
to  be  approved  by  the  Board,  leading  westerly  to  the 
waters  of  the  Hudson  River  for  the  purpose  of  afford- 
ing drainage  to  the  tracks  and  property  of  the  Railroad 
Company  and  the  overhead  driveways  provided  for  in 
the  said  agreement  between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad 
Company. 

Together  also  as  to  said  parcels  above  described  as 
Parcel  No.  36  to  Parcel  No.  46,  both  inclusive,  with  the 
rights  required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of 
the  bridges  and  overhead  sidewalks  above  the  surface  of 
said  parcels  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916. 

Together  also  as  to  said  parcels  with  the  rights  re- 
quired for  subways,  as  shown  on  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1916,  for  the  carrying  of  steam,  water,  air,  refriger- 
ating and  other  pipes,  and  for  power  and  other  cables 
underneath  the  surface  of  the  ground,  and  as  to  Parcel 
No.  46,  with  the  rights  required  for  tunnels  as  shown  on 
Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  under  said  parcel  for  taking 
water  to  and  from  the  power  plants  located  upon  lands 
of  the  Railroad  Company  adjacent  to  said  parcel. 

PARCEL  No.  47. 

Beginning  at  the  southeasterly  corner  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  and  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street  ; 

And  running  thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line 
of  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street,  one  hundred  and 
twenty-two  (122)  feet; 


Drainage. 


Bridges  and  side 
walks. 


Pipe  subways. 


12th  Avenue  W 
37th  to  W.  59t! 
Streets. 


Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet,  to 
the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly,  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  and  five- 
tenths  (197.5)  feet,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty- 
Eighth  (38th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Eighth  (38th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Thirty-Eighth  (38th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Eighth  (38th)  Street,  twenty- two  (22)  feet,  to  the 
westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly,  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  and  five- 
tenths  (197.5)  feet,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty- 
Ninth  (39th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of-  West 
Thirty-Ninth  (39th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty  (60)  feet,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Thirty-Ninth  (39th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Ninth  (39th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet,  to  the 
westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly,  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  and  five- 
tenths  (197.5)  feet,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fortieth 
(40th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West  For- 
tieth (40th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet; 


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Tlience  northerly,  and  parallel  with  the  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  forty-seven  (47)  feet; 

Thence  continuing  northerly  thirteen  (13)  feet,  more 
or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fortieth  (40th) 
Street,  along  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west,  drawn 
northwardly  with  a radius  of  one  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  and  sixty-two  hundredths  (1746.62) 
feet,  from  the  termination  of  the  last  above  described 
course  to  a point  distant  westerly  fifty-four  (54)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant 
northerly  thirteen  (13)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Forty-Second  (42nd)  Street; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Fortieth  (40th)  Street,  twenty-two  (22)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue ; 

Thence  northerly,  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  hundred  and  ninety-seven  and  five 
tenths  (197.5)  feet,  to  the  southerly  line  of  West  Forty- 
First  (41st)  Street; 

Thence  westerly,  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Forty-First  (41st)  Street,  nine  and  five  tenths  (9.5)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  said  curved  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described ; 

Thence  northerly,  along  said  curved  line  drawn  north- 
wardly as  above  described  sixty  and  five  tenths  (60.5) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly  line  of  West  Forty- 
First  (41st)  Street; 

Thence  easterly,  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Forty- 
First  (41st)  Street  one  (1)  foot,  more  or  less,  to  the  west- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  seven  and  five  tenths  (7.5)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  the  intersection  of  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  with  the  said  curved  line  ^awn  north- 
wardly as  above  described ; 


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Thence  continuing  northerly  along  said  curved  line 
drawn  northwardly  as  above  described  two  hundred  and 
eight  (208)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  said  point  distant  west- 
erly fifty-four  (54)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly 
line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in 
said  easterly  line  distant  northerly  thirteen  (13)  feet  at 
right  angles  from  the  southerly  line  of  West  Forty-Second 
(42nd)  Street; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  the 
new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and 
fifteen  and  five  tenths  (615.5)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northerly  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
nine  and  seventy  eight  hundredths  (1609.78)  feet,  four 
hundred  and  forty-eight  (448)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  seventy  two  (72)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  easterly  line  of  the  new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  northerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  the 
new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and 
seventy  eight  and  forty  five  hundredths  (678.45)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  nine  hundred  and  twenty-seven 
and  eighty-seven  hundredths  (927.87)  feet,  four  hundred 
and  sixty  and  five  tenths  (460.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  distant  westerly  seventy-two  (72)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  the  new  location  of 
Twelfth  (12tli)  Avenue; 

Thence  northwesterly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
the  new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  ninety-seven 
(97)  feet ; 

Thence  northerly,  by  a curved  line,  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  nine  hundred  and  eighty-two  and 
eighty-seven  hundredths  (982.87)  feet,  four  hundred  and 


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eighty-seven  and  five  tenths  (487.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  in  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty  nine 
and  five  tenths  (1849.5)  feer,  more  or  less,  to  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth  (59th)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifty- 
Ninth  (59th)  Street,  one  hundred  and  ten  (110)  feet  to  a 
point  distant  easterly  ten  (10)  feet  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifty- 
Ninth  (59th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  eighty-eight  (88)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  distant  westerly  twelve  (12)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  measured 
at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  southerly  twenty- 
four  (24)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth  (59th)  Street 
with  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  thirty-eight  (38)  feet,  more  or  less,  to 
a point  distant  westerly  sixteen  (16)  feet  at  right  angles 
from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  measured 
at  a point,  in  said  easterly  line  distant  southerly  sixty- 
four  (64)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  inter- 
section of  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Ninth  (59th) 
Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

Thence  easterly  at  right  angles  to  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixteen  (16)  feet  to  said  easterly 
line ; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  said  Avenue, 
thirty-six  (36)  feet ; 

Thence  southwesterly,  seventy-six  (76)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  westerly,  seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue, 


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measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  north- 
erly twenty-six  (26)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the 
intersection  of  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Eighth 
(58th)  Street  with  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue ; 

Thence  continuing  southwesterly  forty-six  (46)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  forty  five  (45)  feet 
at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant 
southerly  ten  and  five-tenths  (10.5)  feet  from  said  corner; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  seven  hundred  and  eighty-five 
and  five  tenths  (785.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  northerly  twenty-six  and  five  tenths  (26.5)  feet 
measured  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  from  the  westerly  prolongation  of  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Fifty-Fifth  (55th)  Street; 

Thence  southeasterly  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  (139) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12tli)  Avenue  distant  southerly  forty-five  (45)  feet 
from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
southerly  line  of  West  Fifty-Fifth  (55th)  Street  with  the 
easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  thirty  eight  (38)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  northwesterly  twenty-six  (26)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  westerly  seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right  an- 
gles from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  meas- 
ured at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  southerly 
sixty-three  and  five  tenths  (63.5)  feet  from  said  corner; 

Thence  westerly  at  right  angles  to  the  easter  ly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  twenty-eight  (28)  feet  to  a point 
distant  westerly  forty-five  (45)  feet  at  right  augles  from 
the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 


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Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and  forty-two  and 
seven  tenths  (642.7)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  nine  hundred  and  twenty-seven 
and  eighty-seven  hundredths  (927.87)  feet,  four  hundred 
and  sixty-two  (462)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
easterly  line  of  the  new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  the 
new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  ninety-seven  (97) 
feet ; 

Thence  southerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  east, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  nine  hundred  and  eighty- two  and 
eighty-seven  hundredths  (982.87)  feet,  four  hundred  and 
eighty  eight  (488)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant 
westerly  seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
easterly  line  of  the  new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  the 
new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  six  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  and  forty-five  hundredths  (678.45)  feet, 
more  or  less ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  a curved  line  convex  to  the 
east,  drawn  with  a radius  of  one  thousand  six  hundred 
and  sixty-four  and  seventy-eight  hundredths  (1664.78) 
feet,  tangent  to  the  last  above  described  course,  and 
tangent  to  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  westerly 
seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line 
of  that  part  of  the  new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue, 
between  West  Forty-Second  (42ud)  and  West  Forty- 
Fourth  (44th)  Streets,  three  hundred  and  eighty-four 
(384)  feet,  more  or  less ; 

Thence  northeasterly  thirty-five  (35)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  the  new  location  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  distant  northerly  seventy-live 
(75)  feet  from  the  northeasterly  corner  of  West  Forty- 


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Fourth  (44th)  Street  and  the  new  location  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue ; 

Thence  southerly,  along  the  easterly  line  of  the  new 
location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  sixty-five  (65)  feet: 

Thence  southerly,  one  hundred  and  twelve  (112)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  seventeen  (17) 
feet,  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  the  new  loca- 
tion of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of  the 
new  location  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  five  hundred  and 
fifty-two  (552)  feet,  more  or  less; 

Thence  southerly,  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west, 
drawn  with  a radius  of  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
ninety-one  and  sixty-two  hundredths  (1691.62)  feet,  one 
hundred  and  forty-eight  (148)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point 
distant  westerly  thirty-six  (36)  feet  at  right  angles  from 
the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  measured  at  a 
point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  northerly  fifty- two  (52) 
feet,  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the 
easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  with  the  northerly 
line  of  West  Forty-First  (41st)  Street; 

Thence  easterly  forty-four  and  five  tenths  (44.5)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  in  the  easterly  line  of  said  Avenue, 
distant  northerly  seventy-eight  (78)  feet  from  the  corner 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  with  the  northerly  line  of  West  Forty- 
First  (41st)  Street; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue,  thirty-five  (35)  feet; 

Thence  southwesterly  fifty-six  (56)  feet,  more  or  less, 
to  a point  distant  westerly  seventeen  (17)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue, 
measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant  southerly 
ten  and  five  tenths  (10.5)  feet  from  said  corner; 


If)  9 


Thence  westerly,  parallel  with  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Forty-First  (41st)  Street,  twelve  (12)  feet; 

Thence  southerly,  one  hundred  and  eighteen  (118)  feet, 
more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  forty-three  (43) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line  distant 
southerly  sixty-seven  (67)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by 
the  intersection  of  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  with  the  southerly  line  of  West  Forty-First  (41st) 
Street ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  seventy-two  (72)  feet; 

Thence  easterly  forty-eight  (48)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a 
point  in  the  easterly  line  of  said  avenue  distant  northerly 
eighty  (80)  feet  from  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection 
of  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  with  the 
northerly  line  of  West  Fortieth  (40th)  Street; 

Thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue  forty-live  (45)  feet; 

Thence  southwesterly  one  hundred  and  sixty-three  (163) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  westerly  forty- three 
(43)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12t,h)  Avenue,  measured  at  a point  in  said  easterly  line 
distant  southerly  sixty- two  (62)  feet  from  the  corner  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue  with  the  southerly  line  of  West  Fortieth  (40th) 
Street ; 

Thence  southerly,  parallel  with  the  easterly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  five  hundred  and  ten  (510)  feet  and 
six  (6)  inches,  more  or  less,  to  a point  distant  northerly 
one  hundred  and  forty  (140)  feet  from  the  northerly  line 
of  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street; 

Thence  southeasterly  one  hundred  and  forty-six  (146) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  the  corner  formed  by  the  intersec- 


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Eailroad  facilities. 


Supplemental  in- 
strument. 


tion  of  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  with 
the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street; 

Thence  southeasterly  seventy-eight  (78)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  Thirty- 
Seventh  (37th)  Street  distant  easterly  fifty  (50)  feet  from 
the  corner  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  easterly  line 
of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue  with  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street; 

Thence  westerly  along  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Seventh  (37th)  Street,  fifty  (50)  feet  to  the  point 
or  place  of  beginning. 

Together  as  to  said  Parcel  No.  47  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits, 
telegraph,  telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires 
and  cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  ap- 
pliances, third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Eailroad  Company)  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection 
and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm 
and  fire  protection  systems  of  the  Railroad  Company, 
reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  opera- 
tion of  the  railroad  of  the  Eailroad  Company,  upon  the 
overhead  structures  carrying  the  tracks  of  the  Railroad 
Company  over  the  said  parcel. 

In  respect  of  the  rights  herein  granted  to  the  Eail- 
road Company  upon  and  along  said  Parcel  No.  47  above 
described,  it  is  agreed  that  as  to  any  portion  thereof 
title  to  which  shall  not  be  vested  in  the  City  at  the  time 
of  the  execution  and  delivery  of  this  Indenture  the  City 
shall  immediately  take  steps  to  secure  the  vesting  of  title 
thereof  in  the  City  and  immediately  upon  the  title  thereof 
being  vested  in  the  City  will  execute  a supplemental  in- 


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gtrument  in  writing  granting  unto  the  Railroad  Company- 
said  rights  herein  described  in  and  to  such  portions  there- 
of as  shall  not  be  vested  in  the  City  at  the  time  of  the 
execution  and  delivery  of  this  Indenture. 

As  to  the  five  parcels  of  land  hereinafter  described  as 
“a”,  “b”,  “c”,  “d”  and  “e”,  and  which  parcels  are 
shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916  as  par- 
cels overhead  rights  in  which  are  to  be  granted  to  the 
Railroad  Company  by  the  City,  and  which  parcels  have 
been  excluded  from  the  description  of  Parcel  No.  47 
above  described,  the  City  consents,  so  far  as  it  may  so  do, 
to  the  construction,  maintenance  and  operation  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company  thereover  upon  an 
elevated  viaduct  with  the  necessary  supporting  struc- 
tures thereof,  and  of  the  clearances  and  grades  shown 
upon  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  and  agrees  that  in 
case  of  the  acquisition  of  said  parcels  of  land  by  the  City 
such  acquisition  shall  be  subject  to  the  rights  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  to  construct,  maintain  and  operate  its 
railroad  thereover  as  aforesaid: 

(a)  Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Thirty-Eighth  (38th)  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Seventh 
(37th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue; 

And  westerly  by  a line  parallel  with  and  distant  twenty- 
two  (22)  feet  westerly  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

(b)  Bounded  northerly  by  the  center  line  of  the  block 
between  West  Thirty-Eighth  (38th)  Street  and  West 
Thirty-Ninth  (39th)  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Eighth 
(38th)  Street; 


Agreement  as 
to  lands  excluded 
from  description. 


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Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue ; and 

Westerly  by  a line  parallel  with  and  distant  twenty- 
two  (22)  feet  westerly  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

(c)  Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Fortieth  (40th)  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Thirty-Ninth 
(39th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue ; and 

Westerly  by  a line  parallel  with  and  distant  twenty- 
two  (22)  feet  westerly  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue; 

(d)  Bounded  northerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West 
Forty-First  (41st)  Street; 

Southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fortieth  (40tli) 
Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue; and 

Westerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to  the  west  drawn 
with  a radius  of  one  thousand,  seven  hundred  and  forty- 
six  and  sixty-two  hundredths  (1746.62)  feet,  through  a 
point  distant  westerly  twenty-two  (22)  feet,  more  or 
less,  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue, 
measured  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Fortieth 
(40th)  Street  and  through  a point  distant  westerly  nine 
and  five  tenths  (9.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  westerly 
line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue,  measured  along  the  south- 
erly line  of  West  Forty-First  (41st)  Street; 

(e)  Bounded  southerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West 
Forty-First  (41st)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Ave- 
nue; and 

Westerly  and  northerly  by  a curved  line  convex  to 


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the  west  drawn  with  a radius  of  one  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  and  sixty-two  hundredths  (1746.62) 
feet  through  a point  distant  westerly  one  (1)  foot,  more 
or  less,  from  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue, 
measured  along  the  northerly  line  of  West  Forty-First 
(41st)  Street  and  through  a point  distant  northerly  seven 
and  five  tenths  (7.5)  feet,  more  or  less,  from  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  Forty-First  (41st)  Street,  measured 
along  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  48. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  west- 
erly one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  southwardly  from  a point 
in  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty- 
Ninth  (129th)  Street  distant  two  hundred  and  sixty- nine 
(269)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth 
(12th)  Avenue;  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West 
One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street,  distant 
westerlytwo  hundred  and  seventy-two  (272)  feet  at  right 
angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  49. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Manhattan 
Street  and  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Thirtieth  (130th)  Street; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant  west- 
erly one  hundred  (100)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the 
easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Manhattan  Street 


W.  129th  Street. 


Manhattan  and 
W.  130th  Streets. 


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and  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 
Thirtieth  (1  BOth)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  southwardly  from  a point 
in  the  northerly  line  of  Manhattan  Street,  distant  west- 
erly two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and  five  tenths  (257.5) 
feet  at  right  angles  from  the  easterly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th) 
Avenue,  to  a point  in  the  southerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirtieth  (130th)  Street  distant  westerly  two 
hundred  and  sixty  (260)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  east- 
erly line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  50. 

w.  131st  Street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-First  (131st)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue ; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-First  (131st)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and  five  tenths 
(157.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  51. 

w.  132nd  Street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Second  (132nd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue ; 
Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Second  (132nd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  and  five  tenths 
(157.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

PARCEL  No.  53- 

w.  133rd  street.  Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  West  One 
Hundred  and  Thirty-Third  (133rd)  Street; 

Easterly  by  the  westerly  line  of  Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue; 


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Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-Third  (133rd)  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  one  hundred  and  fifty- seven  and  five  tenths 
(167.5)  feet  at  right  angles  from  the  westerly  line  of 
Twelfth  (12th)  Avenue. 

Together  as  to  the  parcels  above  described  as  Parcel 
No.  48  to  Parcel  No.  52,  both  inclusive,  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits, 
telegraph,  telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires 
and  cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  ap- 
pliances, third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company)  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection  and 
the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm  and  fire  pro- 
tection systems  of  the  Railroad  Company,  reasonably 
required  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  the  railroad 
of  the  Railroad  Company,  upon  the  overhead  viaducts 
carrying  the  tracks  of  the  Railroad  Company  over  the 
said  parcels. 

Together  also  as  to  the  parcels  above  described  as  Par- 
cel No.  49  to  Parcel  No.  52,  both  inclusive,  with  the 
rights  required  for  subways,  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916,  for  the  carrying  of  steam,  water,  air, 
refrigerating  and  other  pipes,  and  for  power  and  other 
cables  underneath  the  surface  of  the  ground  of  said  par- 
cels. 

PARCEL  No.  53. 

Bounded  northerly  by  the  northerly  line  of  Dyckman 
Street ; 

Easterly  by  a line  drawn  from  a point  in  the  northerly 
line  of  Dyckman  Street  distant  easterly  forty-seven  (47) 


Railroad  facilities 


Pipe  subways. 


Dyckman  Street. 


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Railroad  facilities. 


Duct  lines. 


feet  radially  from  the  monumented  center  line  of  the 
railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company  to  a point  in  the 
southerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street  distant  easterly  forty- 
three  (43)  feet  at  right  angles  from  said  center  line; 

Southerly  by  the  southerly  line  of  Dyckman  Street; 

And  westerly  by  a line  drawn  parallel  with  and  distant 
westerly  eighty-five  (85)  feet,  measured  along  the  course 
of  Dyckman  Street  from  the  second  described  course. 

Together  as  to  said  Parcel  No.  53  with  the  rights 
required  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  com- 
municating and  transmission  lines,  secondary  circuits, 
telegraph,  telephone,  lighting,  control  and  power  wires 
and  cables,  lighting  fixtures,  signalling  devices  and  ap- 
pliances, third  rails  and  overhead  working  conductors 
(to  the  extent  provided  in  the  agreement  between  the 
Board  and  the  Railroad  Company)  or  other  appliances 
transmitting  electrical  energy,  negative  cables  and  nega- 
tive connections  desirable  for  electrolytic  protection 
and  the  wires,  pipes  and  facilities  for  fire  alarm 
and  fire  protection  systems  of  the  Railroad  Company, 
reasonably  required  in  connection  with  the  opera- 
tion of  the  railroad  of  the  Railroad  Company,  upon  the 
overhead  viaducts  carrying  the  tracks  of  the  Railroad 
Company  over  the  said  parcel. 

Together  also  with  the  rights  required  for  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  the  duct  lines  carrying 
the  transmission  lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  be- 
low the  surface  of  the  ground  of  said  parcel,  with  the 
right  to  construct,  maintain  and  use  such  manholes  and 
splicing  chambers  as  may  be  required  for  proper  inspec- 
tion and  maintenance  of  said  duct  lines,  the  location  of 
said  manholes  and  splicing  chambers  to  be  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Board. 


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V. 

The  rights  required  for  the  construction  and  main- 
tenance of  the  duct  lines  containing  the  transmission  lines 
of  the  Railroad  Company  under  the  surface  of  Eleventh 
(lltli)  Avenue  and  West  End  Avenue  between  the  north- 
erly line  of  West  Thirty-Fifth  (35th)  Street  and  the 
northerly  line  of  West  Sixty- Sixth  (66th)  Street,  and 
under  the  surface  of  West  Sixty-Sixth  (66tli)  Street  from 
West  End  Avenue  to  the  easterly  line  of  the  lands  of  the 
Railroad  Company,  and  under  the  surface  of  West  Thirty- 
Sixth  (36th)  Street  from  Eleventh  (11th)  Avenue  to  the 
easterly  line  of  lands  of  the  Railroad  Company  and  in 
the  Marginal  Way  between  W.  32nd  and  W.  37th  Streets, 
all  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  with  the 
right  to  construct,  maintain  and  use  manholes  and  splic- 
ing chambers  along  the  course  of  said  duct  lines  at  inter- 
vals of  approximately  four  hundred  (400)  feet  for  the 
purpose  of  the  inspection  and  maintenance  of  said  trans- 
mission lines,  the  location  of  said  manholes  and  splicing 
chambers  to  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board;  with 
the  right  also  to  construct  and  maintain  connections  be- 
tween said  transmission  lines  and  power  houses,  sub- 
stations and  branch  lines  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Pro- 
files of  1916. 

The  rights  required  for  the  construction  and  mainte- 
nance of  the  duct  lines  containing  the  transmission  lines 
of  the  Railroad  Company  under  the  surface  of  Riverside 
Park  between  a point  about  two  hundred  and  twenty 
(220)  feet  south  of  the  south  line  of  West  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street  and  the  south  line  of 
West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th)  Street,  and 
under  the  surface  of  Twelfth  (12th)  - Avenue  (a  portion 
thereof  being  discontinued  and  closed)  from  the  south 
line  of  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-Ninth  (129th) 
Street  to  a point  four  hundred  and  sixty  (460)  feet,  more 
or  less,  north  of  the  north  line  of  West  One  Hundred  and 


Duct  line  11th 
Avenue,  West  End 
Avenue,  W.  66th 
Street,  and  Mar- 
ginal Way. 


Duct  line  River- 
side Park  and  12  th 
Avenue. 


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Duct  line  Dyck- 
man  Street  to 
Spuyten  Duyvil 
Creek. 


Tliirty-Fifth  (135tli)  Street,  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916 ; with  the  right  to  construct,  maintain  and 
use  manholes  and  splicing  chambers  along  the  course  of 
said  duct  lines  at  intervals  of  approximately  four  hundred 
(400)  feet  for  the  inspection  and  maintenance  of  said’ 
transmission  lines,  the  location  of  said  manholes  and 
splicing  chambers  to  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
Board. 

The  easements  required  for  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  the  duct  lines  containing  the  transmis- 
sion lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  underground  be- 
tween Dyclanan  Street  and  Spuyten  Duyvil  Creek  at 
the  location  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of  1916,  with 
the  right  to  construct,  maintain  and  use  splicing  cham- 
bers and  manholes  therein  at  intervals  of  approximately 
four  hundred  (400)  feet  for  the  purpose  of  the  inspection 
and  maintenance  of  said  transmission  lines,  the  location 
of  said  manholes  and  splicing  chambers  to  be  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Board ; together  also  with  the  right  to 
construct  and  maintain  branch  line  conduits  containing 
the  transmission  lines  of  the  Railroad  Company  under- 
ground at  the  locations  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916  connecting  the  said  duct  lines  of  the  Railroad 
Company  between  Dyclanan  Street  and  Spuyten  Duyvil 
Creek  with  the  new  right  of  way  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany between  said  points  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Pro- 
files of  1916. 


VI. 

Lands  under  All  the  rights  of  the  City  in  and  to  the  lands  formerly 

of^way'1  \v.U  135th  under  water  to  be  retained  by  the  Railroad  Company 

street  to  Dyckman  ]yjno-  west  of  the  original  high  water  mark  of  the  North 
Street  * 0 

or  Hudson  River  within  the  area  of  the  original  right-of- 
way  of  the  Railroad  Company  between  Dyckman  Street 
on  the  north  and  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Fifth 
(135th)  Street  on  the  south. 


169 


TO  HAVE  AND  TO  HOLD  the  lands,  lands  under 
water,  rights,  interests  and  easements  hereinabove  de- 
scribed in  subdivisions  I,  II,  III,  IV,  V and  VI  hereof 
unto  the  Railroad  Company,  its  successors  and  assigns 
forever. 

It  is  mutually  covenanted  and  agreed  as  follows : 

(a)  Nothing  in  this  indenture  contained  shall  be  held  to 
create  a fee  in  the  Railroad  Company  in  or  to  the  soil  of 
any  street,  avenue,  way,  public  wharf,  park  or  place  ex- 
cept such  part  or  parts  of  any  streets  or  avenues  as  may 
under  the  provisions  of  the  Act  above  mentioned  or  other- 
wise have  been  discontinued  and  closed ; or  to  prevent  the 
City  from  occupying  or  using  or  from  permitting  others 
to  occupy  or  to  use  any  part  of  any  street,  avenue,  way, 
public  wharf,  park  or  place,  not  discontinued  or  closed, 
underneath  or  over  the  tracks  and  structures  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles 
of  1916,  in  any  manner  which  shall  not  interfere  with 
or  endanger  the  occupation  or  use  by  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany under  and  in  conformity  with  said  Plans  and  Pro- 
files of  1916. 

(b)  In  respect  of  the  lands  and  lands  under  water,  or 
rights,  interests  or  easements  in  lands  or  lands  under 
water,  rights  or  easements  in  streets,  avenues,  ways,  pub- 
lic wharves,  parks  or  places  herein  granted  by  the  City  to 
the  Railroad  Company  in  the  section  of  the  City  be- 
tween Spuyten  Duyvil  Creek  and  the  southerly  line 
of  West  Seventy-Second  (72nd)  Street,  nothing  in 
this  indenture  contained  shall  be  deemed  to  give  to  the 
Railroad  Company  any  right  of  access  to  the  North  or 
Hudson  River  (except  at  the  location  of  the  Terminal 
mentioned  in  Section  4 of  Article  Six  of  the  agreement 
between  the  Board  and  the  Railroad  Company  and  at 
such  location  only  to  the  extent  shown  on  the  Plans  and 
Profiles  of  1916) ; but  the  City  shall  and  hereby  does 
retain  and  reserve  all  its  rights  in  and  to  the  lands 


Reservation  by 
City  of  rights  in 
streets. 


Reservation  by 
City  of  riparian 
rights. 


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and  lands  under  water  in  said  section  of  the  City,  lying 
westerly  of  the  proposed  westerly  line  of  the  lands  of  the 
Railroad  Company  as  shown  on  the  Plans  and  Profiles  of 
1916. 

In  witness  whereof,  The  City  of  New  York  has  caused 
its  corporate  seal  to  be  hereunto  affixed  and  duly  attested, 
and  this  instrument  to  be  signed  in  duplicate  by  its  Mayor 
and  Comptroller,  and  The  New  York  Central  Railroad 
Company  has  caused  its  corporate  seal  to  be  hereunto 
affixed  and  this  instrument  to  be  signed  in  duplicate  by 
its  President,  the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 

The  City  of  New  York, 

By 


Mayor. 


Attest : 


City  Clerk. 

Approved  as  to  form. 


Comptroller. 


Corporation  Counsel. 


Assistant  Corporation  Counsel. 


The  New  York  Central  Railroad  Company, 

By 


Attest: 


President. 


Secretary. 


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State  of  New  York,  | 

County  of  New  York,  [ss-: 

On  this  day  of  , 1917,  before 

me  personally  came  John  Purroy  Mitchel,  to  me  person- 
ally known  and  known  to  me  to  be  the  Mayor  of  The  City 
of  New  York,  who  being-  by  me  duly  sworn,  did  depose 
and  say:  That  he  resides  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan, 
City  of  New  York;  that  he  is  the  Mayor  of  The  City  of 
New  York,  one  of  the  corporations  described  in  and 
which  executed  the  foregoing  instrument,  and  knows  the 
corporate  seal  thereof;  that  the  seal  affixed  to  the  fore- 
going instrument  is  the  corporate  seal  of  The  City  of 
New  York,  and  was  affixed  thereto  by  authority  of  the 
Board  of  Estimate  and  Apportionment  of  said  City,  and 
of  Chapter  777  of  the  Laws  of  1911,  and  that  he  signed  his 
name  thereto  as  Mayor  of  said  City  by  like  authority. 


172 


State  of  New  York, 
County  of  New  York, 


ss. : 


On  this  day  of  , 1917,  before 

me  personally  came  William  A.  Prendergast,  to  me  per- 
sonally known  and  known  to  me  to  be  the  Comptroller  of 
The  City  of  New  York,  who  being  by  me  duly  sworn,  did 
depose  and  say:  That  he  resides  in  the  Borough  of 

Brooklyn,  City  of  New  York;  that  he  is  the  Comptroller 
of  The  City  of  New  York,  one  of  the  corporations  de- 
scribed in  and  which  executed  the  foregoing  instrument, 
and  knows  the  corporate  seal  thereof ; that  the  seal  affixed 
to  the  foregoing  instrument  is  the  corporate  seal  of  The 
City  of  New  York,  and  was  affixed  thereto  by  authority 
of  the  Board  of  Estimate  and  Apportionment  of  the  said 
City  and  of  Chapter  777  of  the  Laws  of  1911,  and  that  he 
signed  his  name  thereto  as  Comptroller  of  said  City  by 
like  authority. 


173 


State  of  New  York,  \ 

Comity  of  New  York,  (S8,: 

On  this  day  of  , 1917,  before 

me  personally  came  P.  J.  Scully,  to  me  personally  known 
and  known  to  me  to  be  the  City  Clerk  of  The  City  of  New 
York,  who  being  by  me  duly  sworn,  did  depose  and  say: 
That  he  resides  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan,  City  of 
New  York;  that  he  is  the  City  Clerk  of  The  City  of  New 
York,  one  of  the  corporations  described  in  and  which 
executed  the  foregoing  instrument,  and  knows  the  cor- 
porate seal  thereof;  that  the  seal  affixed  to  the  foregoing 
instrument  is  the  corporate  seal  of  The  City  of  New  York, 
and  was  so  affixed  by  due  authority. 


174 


State  of  New  York,  ) 

County  of  New  York,  J 

On  this  day  of  , 1917,  before 

me  personally  came  Alfred  H.  Smith,  to  me  personally 
known  and  known  to  me  to  be  the  President  of  The  New 
York  Central  Railroad  Company,  who  being  by  me  duly 
sworn  did  depose  and  say:  That  he  resides  at  Chap- 

paqua,  Westchester  County,  New  York;  that  he  is  the 
President  of  The  New  York  Central  Railroad  Company, 
one  of  the  corporations  described  in  and  which  executed 
the  foregoing  instrument  and  knows  the  corporate  seal 
thereof ; that  the  seal  affixed  to  the  foregoing  instrument 
is  the  corporate  seal  of  The  New  York  Central  Railroad 
Company,  and  was  affixed  thereto  by  authority  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  said  Company,  and  that  he  signed 
his  name  thereto  as  President  of  said  Company  by  like 
authority. 


175 


State  of  New  York,  } 

County  of  New  York,  |ss,: 

I,  Dwight  W.  Pardee,  Secretary  of  Tlie  New  York  Cen- 
tral Railroad  Company,  do  hereby  certify : That  at  a 

meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  The  New  York  Cen- 
tral Railroad  Company,  duly  held  at  the  office  of  said 
Company  in  the  City  of  New  York,  on  the  day  of 

, 1917,  the  President  submitted  the 
form  of  the  foregoing  instrument  in  writing  to  be  execut- 
ed by  The  City  of  New  York  and  The  New  York  Central 
Railroad  Company  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  Chap- 
ter 777  of  the  Laws  of  1911 ; 

Whereupon,  upon  motion,  duly  seconded,  the  following 
resolution  was  adopted: 

Resolved:  That  the  form  of  said  instrument  in  writ- 
ing he  and  the  same  is  hereby  approved,  and  that  the 
President  be,  and  he  hereby  is,  authorized  to  execute 
under  the  corporate  seal  of  this  Company,  such  instru- 
ment. 


Secretary. 


176 


State  of  New  York,  ) 

County  of  New  York,  ) ss'  ’ 

I,  Joseph  Haag,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Estimate 
and  Apportionment  of  The  City  of  New  York  do  hereby 
certify:  That  at  a meeting-  of  the  Board  of  Estimate 
and  Apportionment  of  The  City  of  New  York,  duly  held 
at  the  City  Hall,  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan,  City  of 
New  York,  on  the  day  , 1917, 

the  submitted  the  form  of  the 

foregoing  instrument  in  writing  to  be  executed  by  The 
City  of  New  York  and  The  New  York  Central  Railroad 
Company,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  Chapter  777  of 
the  Laws  of  1911 ; 

Whereupon,  upon  motion,  duly  seconded,  the  follow- 
ing resolution  was  adopted : 

Resolved : That  the  Mayor  and  the  Comptroller  be, 

and  they  hereby  are,  authorized  in  the  name  of  The  City 
of  New  York,  and  on  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Estimate  and 
Apportionment  of  The  City  of  New  York,  to  execute  the 
foregoing  instrument  in  writing,  pursuant  to  Chapter 
777  of  the  Laws  of  1911,  and  to  cause  the  seal  of  The  City 
of  New  York  to  be  thereunto  affixed  and  duly  attested. 


Secretary. 


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